Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
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Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage

Illustrated by Sean Qualls
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4 - 8
Reading age
40
Page count
720L
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Jan 27, 2015
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For most children these days it would come as a great shock to know that before 1967, they could not marry a person of a race different from their own. That was the year that the Supreme Court issued its decision in Loving v. Virginia.This is the story of one brave family: Mildred Loving, Richard Perry Loving, and their three children. It is the story of how Mildred and Richard fell in love, and got married in Washington, D.C. But when they moved back to their hometown in Virginia, they were arrested (in dramatic fashion) for violating that state’s laws against interracial marriage. The Lovings refused to allow their children to get the message that their parents’ love was wrong and so they fought the unfair law, taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court - and won!

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780545478533
    Publication Date
    January 27, 2015
    Publisher
    Arthur A. Levine Books
    Page Count
    40
    Audience
    Picture
    Reading Age
    4 - 8 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2014005329
    Lexile® Level
    720L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~Q
    Est. ATOS® Book Level
    ~4.6

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