King strengthen the learning curve for readers. Excerpts from court decisions, period headlines, and quotations from Dr. Full-page photographs of school segregation and civil rights demonstrations clearly set the time frame. Love, children, marriage, jail, flight to Washington, D.C., long court battles, and final unanimous vindication in 1967 from the Warren Supreme Court fill the pages, detailing every particle of their strong feelings for each other and the equally strong bigotry of the local sheriff and state judicial system. The couple, Mildred and Richard Loving, alternate and sometimes join together to tell their stories in beautifully rendered free verse.
Their love was scorned and against the law in their state. Her family was “descended / from African slaves. In the early 1950s a boy and a girl in rural Virginia fell in love and got married. A powerful and riveting account of an American couple in love when that love was ruled illegal in many American states.
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