The Loving Quilt: Repeal of the Virginia Racial Integrity Law, Barbara Ann McCraw

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Barbara Ann McCraw, artist
The Loving Quilt: Repeal of the Virginia Racial Integrity Law, 2012
Where object was made: Denton, Texas, United States
Material/technique: machine piecing; eighty percent cotton/twenty percent polyester Hobbs batting; machine appliqué; broderie perse; machine quilting; rhinestones; hand appliqué; cotton fabric; sixty-weight decorative threads
Accession number: EL2017.074
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And Still We Rise

1967: Interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving are married in Washington, D.C. When the Lovings return to Virginia, they are charged and found guilty of violating a state statute banning interracial marriage. In the 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court declares Virginia’s 1924 Racial Integrity Act unconstitutional. The decision renders race-based marriage bans in the United States illegal.

Exhibitions

And Still We Rise
2017