Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were residents of Virginia.

Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were residents of Virginia. In 1958 they were married in the District of Columbia. The Lovings returned to Virginia to begin their married lives together. The State of Virginia prosecuted and convicted the Lovings of violating Virginia’s statute prohibiting interracial marriages. The Lovings were sentenced to a one-year jail term, which would be suspended if they agreed to leave Virginia for a twenty-five year period. The Lovings moved to the District of Columbia and brought a motion in the Virginia trial court to vacate the judgment and set aside the sentence. Explain the basis for the Lovings’ arguments.

This case was made into a movie , released in 2015, and presented at the Cannes International Film Festival. Its title  “Loving.”