How a Conservative northerner rabbi’s book inadvertently became the gospel for Virginia’s effort to justify the ban on interracial marriage

On April 10, 1967, Chief Justice Earl Warren called out to the spectators seated in the United States Supreme Court informing them that oral arguments for Case Number 395 were about to begin. Better known as Loving v. Virginia, Case Number 395 was Richard Perry Loving’s appeal of his and his wife Mildred’s felony convictions under Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statutes; their crime was being married.