The Wandering Eye

My personal blog, where I post photos, article links, music, general rants and ruminations, quotes and writing I like. It's become a bit Glee-centric, so you may see a strange dichotomy of Glee madness and (sometimes, not always) sobering real-world tidbits. Such is life. I work in the library/archives/museum field, and I'm an avid history and literature nut.
Forty-five years ago, sixteen states still prohibited interracial marriage. Then, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case of Richard Perry Loving, a white man, and his wife, Mildred Loving, a woman of African American and Native American descent, who had been arrested for miscegenation nine years earlier in Virginia. The Lovings were not active in the Civil Rights movement but their tenacious legal battle to justify their marriage changed history when the Supreme Court unanimously declared Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law—and all race-based marriage bans—unconstitutional. LIFE magazine photographer Grey Villet’s intimate images were uncovered by director Nancy Buirski during the making of The Loving Story, a documentary debuting on February 14, 2012 on HBO. http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/loving-story-photographs-grey-villet Going to see this exhibition today. Really excited.

Forty-five years ago, sixteen states still prohibited interracial marriage. Then, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case of Richard Perry Loving, a white man, and his wife, Mildred Loving, a woman of African American and Native American descent, who had been arrested for miscegenation nine years earlier in Virginia. The Lovings were not active in the Civil Rights movement but their tenacious legal battle to justify their marriage changed history when the Supreme Court unanimously declared Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law—and all race-based marriage bans—unconstitutional. LIFE magazine photographer Grey Villet’s intimate images were uncovered by director Nancy Buirski during the making of The Loving Story, a documentary debuting on February 14, 2012 on HBO.

http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/loving-story-photographs-grey-villet

Going to see this exhibition today. Really excited.

  1. charlottechronicles reblogged this from mollyblooming and added:
    yesterday. Such a great exhibit!!!
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