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Brittany Houser outside the Caroline County Jail
Bowling Green, Virginia—February 20, 2000

Caroline County JailThis is the Caroline County Jail in Bowling Green, Virginia where Richard and Mildred Loving were incarcerated in separate rat-infested cells upon the morning of their arrest on July 17, 1958.


Photograph by Charlie Lawing


Warrant for Mildred Jeter's Arrest
Commonwealth of Virginia—July 17, 1958

This is the warrant for Mildred Loving's arrest on July 17, 1958.

Note that the Commonwealth consciously chose to ignore her new last name.

Photograph by Charlie Lawing

 


Virginia Department of Health
Health Bulletin, Vol. XVI, Extra No. 2—March 1924

Cover article about the “New Virginia Law to Preserve Racial Integrity,” written by W.A. Plecker, M.D., State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Richmond, Virginia.

Photograph courtesy the American Philosophical Society


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