Loving Vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case by Patricia Hruby Powell and illustrated by Shadra Strickland is a large, beautifully made historical 
novel-in-verse. Well-researched (there are lists of the author’s interviews and sources in the back) and fascinating, the Lovings is a story of love between a black woman and a white man in Virginia, when interracial marriage was illegal there.
Though Mildred and Richard’s family and friends accepted their relationship, the sheriff goes out of his way to find them and arrest them. Jail, moving to another state, sneaking home for Easter–the Lovings had to endure much. They wanted to live a peaceful life in the county they grew up in, and they finally get to, after the Supreme Court ruled in their favour on June 12, 1967.
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