The Loving Story

Eleanor Backman - The Great White Hope (archive footage)

Himself - Virginia Governor, 1958 (archive footage) (as J. Lindsay Almond Jr.)

Himself - Historian and President, University of Richmond (as Edward Ayers)

Himself - Caroline County Circuit Court (archive footage) (as Judge Leon M. Bazile)

Himself - Associate Justice (archive footage)

Himself - Associate Justice (archive footage)

Himself - NBC News, Washington (archive sound)

Himself - Associate Justice (archive footage)

Himself - ACLU Attorney (archive footage) (archive sound)

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Himself - Associate Justice (archive footage)

Himself - Caroline County Deputy Sheriff (as Kenneth Edwards)

Himself - Associate Justice (archive footage)

Himself - Richard's Best Friend

Himself - Associate Justice (archive footage)

Himself - ACLU Attorney (archive footage) (archive sound)

Herself - Richard's Classmate

Joey Drayton - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (archive footage)

Cab Driver - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (archive footage)

Himself - NBC News (archive sound)

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Himself - Mildred's Brother

Himself - Son (archive footage)

Jack Jefferson - The Great White Hope

Himself - Son (archive footage)

Herself - Richard's Mother (archive footage)

Herself (archive footage) (as Mildred Jeter Loving)

Herself - Daughter

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Himself - Commonwealth of Virginia (archive sound) (as RD McIllwaine III)

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Himself - CBS News (archive footage)

John Prentice - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (archive footage)

Himself - Friend

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Himself - Associate Justice (archive footage) (archive sound)

Himself - Chief Justice (archive sound) (archive footage) (as Chief Justice Earl Warren)

Himself - Associate Justice (archive footage)

The Lovings were a real life interracial married couple who were criminally charged under a Virginia statute banning miscegenation. By counsel of and with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Lovings brought a suit which sought to overturn the law. In 1967, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Lovings, striking down the Virginia law, and all state anti-miscegenation laws, as unconstitutional per the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Loving v. Virginia has been cited in every "same sex marriage" or "marriage equality" case brought on behalf of gay people wishing to receive marriage licenses from the states in which they live, or to overturn state "marriage is only between a man and a woman" laws in many states of the United States. On June 12, 2007, Mildred Loving made a statement on the 40th anniversary of the Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court decision, in which, among other things, she said that she was proud that their names were "...on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight, seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about."

"Garnet" was the first name of Mildred Loving's sister, and although spelled differently, the last name of the Sheriff of Caroline County, Brooke Garnett, who arrested Mildred and Richard Loving.