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Why couldn’t RFK help the Lovings? Why did they need to go through the judicial system?

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Robert Francis Kennedy was the attorney general at that time and therefore he could not directly help Mildred but he advised to contact the American Civil Liberties Union.

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Mildred Loving was an African American woman and her husband Richard was a white, they got arrested and imprisoned for violating the anti-miscegenation law of Virginia, the 1924 Racial Integrity Act. Only a higher court could help the couple now and on advice of RFK, they approached ACLU. The American Civil Liberties Union instantly decided to support the couple. It became a landmark Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia. The court unanimously held that state prohibitions on interracial marriage were unconstitutional-and proclaimed that the freedom to marry belonged to all citizens of America.

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