Movie Review: LOVING (2016) AA

An excellent and touching movie . . . if you are interested in the history of the Civil Rights movement in the United States. 

Loving deals with the courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown in Virginia. 

Yes, until 1967, "interracial" people were not allowed to marry in many southern states.  A carryover from the days of slavery. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the  the right to marry. 

I felt the movie could have shown more of how the issue was handled in court. 

The decision was cited as precedent in U.S. federal court decisions holding restrictions on same-sex marriage in the United States unconstitutional, including in the 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges.

If you are interested in this case see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia