50 Years Later, The Couple At The Heart of Loving v. Virginia Still Stirs ControversyNot much has changed in the rural hamlet of Central Point, Virginia, since Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, called “String Bean” for her slender frame, used to moon over one another in the 1950s. Teenagers still speed by the soybean fields where Richard raced his black Ford dragster. The couple's tumbledown white house still overlooks Passing Road, so named for residents of color who sometimes passed for white.
Jacobs, Sally. “50 Years Later, the Couple at the Heart of Loving v. Virginia Still Stirs Controversy.” WGBH, 12 June 2017, www.wgbh.org/news/2017/06/11/news/50-years-later-couple-heart-loving-v-virginia-still-stirs-controversy.