Tell the Court I Love My Wife

In 1967, as ACLU attorney Bernard Cohen prepared to argue before the United States Supreme Court, he asked his client Richard Loving if there was anything he wanted conveyed to the justices. Richard, a white bricklayer from Caroline County, Virginia, had married Mildred Jeter — a woman of Black and Rappahannock Native American descent — in Washington, D. C. , on June 2, 1958.…