Jun 12, 2017

June 12, 2017 marked 50 years since the Supreme Court overturned laws against interracial marriage in 16 states.

: This Jan. 26, 1965 file photo shows Mildred Loving and her husband Richard P Loving. Fifty years after Mildred and Richard Loving’s landmark legal challenge shattered the laws against interracial marriage in the U.S., some couples of different races still talk of facing discrimination, disapproval and sometimes outright hostility from their fellow Americans. (AP Photo)

: The graves of Richard and Mildred Loving are seen in a rural cemetery near their former home in Caroline County, Virginia, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Richard Loving, a white man, and his wife Mildred, a black woman, challenged Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage and ultimately won their case at the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967. Monday, June 12, 2017 marks 50 years since the Supreme Court issued that opinion, which overturned laws against interracial marriage in 16 states. (AP Photo/Jessica Gresko)

: Phil Hirschkop, one of the two attorneys who defended the Loving case, reads a letter from Mildred and Richard Loving, at his home in Lorton, Va., Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Fifty years after Mildred and Richard Loving’s landmark legal challenge shattered the laws against interracial marriage in the U.S., some couples of different races still talk of facing discrimination, disapproval and sometimes outright hostility from their fellow Americans. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

: Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe , right, looks over a historical marker, along with his wife, Dorothy, center, and Richmond Mayor Lavar Stoney, left, that was unveiled commemorating the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down bans on interracial marriage Monday, June 12, 2017, in Richmond, Va. The new historical marker to commemorate the lawsuit brought by Richard and Mildred Loving, was dedicated outside the old Virginia Supreme Court, which ruled against the Lovings before they ultimately won in the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

: Virginia Gov. Terry Mcauliffe, center right, shakes hands with with Richmond mayor, Levar Stoney, center left, during a ceremony to unveil a historical marker commemorating the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down bans on interracial marriage Monday, June 12, 2017, in Richmond, Va. The new historical marker to commemorate the lawsuit brought by Richard and Mildred Loving, was dedicated outside the old Virginia Supreme Court, which ruled against the Lovings before they ultimately won in the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

: In “Loving,” Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton play the real-life couple Mildred and Richard Loving. (Photo courtesy Cannes International Film Festival/TNS)

: This is one of Mildred Loving’s letters to Philip Hirschkop about the case. (Washington Post photo by Bill O’Leary)

50 years after Loving v. Virginia