At 2 AM on July 11, 1958, newly married couple Richard and Mildred Loving were abruptly awakened in their bedroom by a Virginia sheriff. The sheriff questioned Richard, a white man, asking, "What are you doing in bed with this woman?" Mildred, a woman of both Black and Indigenous American heritage, responded, "I'm his wife." The sheriff retorted, "Not here, you're not." During that era, Virginia still had laws against interracial marriage, and the Lovings were taken into custody for their unlawful cohabitation. For nearly nine years, the couple was forced to live away from their hometown, but they eventually boldly decided to challenge the state's discriminatory laws in the Supreme Court. In 1967, the groundbreaking Loving v. Virginia ruling effectively decriminalized interracial marriage throughout the entire United States.