Witness: Black History Collection

In 1958, a mixed-race couple, Mildred and Richard Loving, were arrested and then banished from the US state of Virginia for breaking its laws against inter-racial marriage. Nine years later, Mildred and Richard Loving won a ruling at the Supreme Court declaring this sort of legislation unconstitutional.Witness speaks to the Lovings' lawyer, Bernie Cohen.Image: Mildred and Richard Loving, pictured in 1967 (Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)