In 1965 interracial couples in Mississippi married under an unjust law

Evidence

Two years before Loving will make their love legal, my mother writes about marrying despite an unjust law; and because it is 1965, Mississippi in turmoil, she writes about a cross burned at the church next door, interracial outings at the beach, and being followed by police—all of it side by side in her letters’ tidy script. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1150

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s own interest: this is a specific contested empirical claim (the Loving anti-miscegenation regime) that sits within the broader reframing thesis.