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UMBC Humanities Forum: "The Loving Story" Film Screening
“The Loving Story” is a moving documentary film that tells the story of the Richard and Mildred Loving, who were arrested in 1958 for violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage. Their struggle culminated in the 1967 landmark Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia. The film was directed by Nancy Buirski and produced by Nancy Buirski and Elisabeth Haviland James.
The “Loving Story” will be screened Monday, February 10 from 12-1:30 p.m. at UMBC in the Gallery in Special Collections at Albin O. Kuhn Library. It is free and open to the public.
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The screening is part of the Created Equal Project of the National Endowment for the Humanities public programming initiative. The program encourages public conversations about the changing meanings of freedom and equality in America.
The event is sponsored by the Africana Studies department, Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, Dresher Center for the Humanities, Gender and Women’s Studies department, Office of Student Life’s Mosaic: Center for Culture and Diversity, and the Department of Visual Arts. For more information, click here.