What Can Be Gleaned...

from Justice Ginsburg's latest media interview?
(with Jeffrey Rosen, last week):

Rosen: What does Brown mean today and is there agreement about the core meaning?

Ginsburg: The culmination of the civil rights cases that led up to Brown came 13 years later in 1967 in Loving v. Virginia. It was the story of a couple that grew up in the rural area of Virginia where people got along with each other. …

So Mildred and Richard Loving came to D.C. to get married because they couldn’t get married in Virginia. They went back to Virginia. One night the sheriff comes to their home with a flashlight and said, “Get out of bed and come with me to see the judge.”

They pointed to their marriage certificate, which they had framed and he said, “That doesn’t count for anything here.”

So the judge said he would not sentence them to prison if they agreed to leave the state of Virginia and never come back together. Then the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King were very important in the country. And Mildred Loving thought that maybe there was hope the system would work for her. So they brought the case and it ended again with a unanimous decision in Supreme Court in 1967.

The Loving v. Virginia decision is when apartheid in America ended, not with Brown.

What Can Be Gleaned...? Your guess is as good as mine!

(Way to steer that question, Ruth!
Zoom, zoom -- Drivers wanted.)