![]() They had to leave their families, their land, the home that they wanted to build, and the future they had seen for themselves. With the assistance of a local attorney ( Bill Camp), the Lovings were released under one condition: they had to leave the state of Virginia and not return for 25 years. Officers broke into their home, arresting both Richard and Mildred, stating that their marriage license was no good in Virginia and that they had violated anti-miscegenation laws that stated that mixed-race couples were a violation punishable by jail time. In the middle of the night, all of that changed. They hoped that Richard’s mother would deliver their first child, and that they would live in peace in a beautiful, country setting. ![]() ![]() to make their union official, and Richard bought an acre of land near Mildred’s family home on which he planned to build a house. In 1958 Virginia, a reserved mechanic and construction worker named Richard Loving ( Joel Edgerton) married his pregnant girlfriend Mildred ( Ruth Negga).
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