A Love That Many Waters Could Not Quench

On a July night in 1958, Sheriff Garnett Brooks and two deputies burst into a bedroom in Caroline County, Virginia, flashlights cutting through the darkness. Richard Loving, a white bricklayer, and his wife Mildred, a woman of Black and Native American descent, lay in their bed. Their marriage certificate from Washington, D. C. , hung on the wall — but in Virginia, their love was a felony.…