Editorial: Mildred Loving helped transform America only a short time ago Mildred Loving died last week at the age of 68. It was Loving and her late husband, Richard, who successfully challenged laws that banned interracial marriage. They were criminally charged under Virginia’s miscegenation statute but had their convictions reversed by the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia. Three observations about Loving’s life and what it symbolized: |