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'''Loving Day''' is an annual celebration held on June 12, the [[anniversary]] of the 1967 [[United States Supreme Court]] decision ''[[Loving v. Virginia]]'' that struck down all [[anti-miscegenation laws]] [[Interracial marriage in the United States|remaining in sixteen]] U.S. states.<ref name="LDWP">{{cite news |last=Tucker |first=Neely |date=June 13, 2006 |title=Loving Day Recalls a Time When the Union of a Man And a Woman Was Banned |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/12/AR2006061201716.html }}</ref><ref name="LDVV">{{cite news|last=Bussel |first=Rachel Kramer |date=June 6, 2006 |title=Love Actually: Talking with Ken Tanabe, founder of Loving Day |newspaper=The Village Voice |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0624,bussel,73486,24.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060702193356/http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0624%2Cbussel%2C73486%2C24.html |archive-date=July 2, 2006 }}</ref><ref name="LDHP">{{cite news |last=Gandin Le |first=Jennifer |date=June 8, 2007 |title=Loving Day: It's Not a Hallmark Holiday |newspaper=The Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-gandin-le/loving-day-its-not-a-ha_b_51358.html }}</ref> In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were [[state law|U.S. state laws]] banning [[interracial marriage|mixed-race marriages]]. The [[Warren Court]] ruled unanimously in 1967 that these state laws were unconstitutional.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.oyez.org/cases/1966/395|title=Loving v. Virginia|last=|first=|date=|website=Oyez|language=en|access-date=2019-09-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1996028,00.html|title=Loving Day|last=Shay|first=Christopher|date=2010-06-11|magazine=Time|access-date=2019-09-20|language=en-US|issn=0040-781X}}</ref> Chief Justice [[Earl Warren]] wrote in the court [[majority opinion]] that "the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual, and cannot be infringed by the State."<ref name=":0" />

'''Loving Day''' is an annual national celebration held on June 12, the [[anniversary]] of the 1967 [[United States Supreme Court]] decision ''[[Loving v. Virginia]]'' which struck down all [[anti-miscegenation laws]] [[Interracial marriage in the United States|remaining in sixteen]] U.S. states.<ref name="LDWP">{{cite news |last=Tucker |first=Neely |date=June 13, 2006 |title=Loving Day Recalls a Time When the Union of a Man And a Woman Was Banned |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/12/AR2006061201716.html }}</ref><ref name="LDVV">{{cite news|last=Bussel |first=Rachel Kramer |date=June 6, 2006 |title=Love Actually: Talking with Ken Tanabe, founder of Loving Day |newspaper=The Village Voice |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0624,bussel,73486,24.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060702193356/http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0624%2Cbussel%2C73486%2C24.html |archive-date=July 2, 2006 }}</ref><ref name="LDHP">{{cite news |last=Gandin Le |first=Jennifer |date=June 8, 2007 |title=Loving Day: It's Not a Hallmark Holiday |newspaper=The Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-gandin-le/loving-day-its-not-a-ha_b_51358.html }}</ref> In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were [[state law|U.S. state laws]] banning [[interracial marriage]], mainly forbidding marriage between two different races, until the [[Warren Court]] ruled unanimously in 1967 that these state laws were unconstitutional.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.oyez.org/cases/1966/395|title=Loving v. Virginia|last=|first=|date=|website=Oyez|language=en|access-date=2019-09-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1996028,00.html|title=Loving Day|last=Shay|first=Christopher|date=2010-06-11|magazine=Time|access-date=2019-09-20|language=en-US|issn=0040-781X}}</ref> Chief Justice [[Earl Warren]] wrote in the court [[majority opinion]] that "the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual, and cannot be infringed by the State."<ref name=":0" />



Loving Day is not an official national or state holiday in the United States, despite attempts to make it so.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lovingday.org/make-loving-day-official|title=Make Loving Day Official|work=lovingday.org|access-date=June 12, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91415079|title='Loving Day' Personified in Presidential Race|date=June 12, 2008|work=NPR.org|access-date=June 12, 2015}}</ref> A writer for ''Time'' magazine in 2010 claimed that Loving Day was "the biggest multiracial celebration in the United States."<ref name=time>{{cite news| url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1996028,00.html

Loving Day is not an officially recognized holiday by the [[U.S. government]], despite attempts to make it so.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lovingday.org/make-loving-day-official|title=Make Loving Day Official|work=lovingday.org|access-date=June 12, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91415079|title='Loving Day' Personified in Presidential Race|date=June 12, 2008|work=NPR.org|access-date=June 12, 2015}}</ref> Loving Day is the biggest multiracial celebration in the United States.<ref name=time>{{cite news| url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1996028,00.html

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