jun 12, 1967 - Supreme Court rules that preventing interracial couples from marrying is unconstitutional

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Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, brought suit against the state of Virginia after being sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other. Their marriage violated the state's anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored." The Supreme Court's unanimous decision held this prohibition was unconstitutional, overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.

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