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Love Was My Parents’ Answer to Jim Crow

爱是我父母对吉姆·克劳的回应

A 1957 photograph shows how love, faith, and resilience can endure even in the darkest times, writes John E. Green.

A 1957 photograph shows how love, faith, and resilience can endure even in the darkest times, writes John E. Green.

2026-02-01  1556  晦涩
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The year this photo was taken, a recently passed civil rights bill was proving difficult to enforce. That year, Richard and Mildred Loving would begin a nearly 10-year odyssey of banishment from their home state of Virginia, that was finally ended by a Supreme Court ruling that legalized interracial marriage. 1957 is the year president Eisenhower reluctantly federalized the National Guard in Little Rock, Ark. to escort nine Black children through a hostile white mob to attend Central High School.

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