Before Loving v. Virginia, another interracial couple fought in court for their marriage - The Washington Post

Before Loving v. Virginia, another interracial couple fought in court for their marriage - The Washington Post:



Eighty-four years before Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter traveled from their home in Virginia to wed in Washington, there was another interracial couple who made the same trip for the sake of love.



On Nov. 4, 1874, the day interracial marriages became legal in the nation’s capital, Andrew Kinney, a black man, and Mahala Miller, a white woman, left their home in Augusta County, Va., where they lived with their two sons, traveled to the District and married.