“Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual, and cannot be infringed by the State.”
On this date in 1967, the US Supreme Court ruled in the Loving v. Virginia decision written by Chief Justice Earl Warren that states could not outlaw interracial marriages.
Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist introduces a romantic partner to her/his family for the first time, and learns that her/his family dislikes the partner for something over which the partner has no control.
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