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Loving vs. Virginia a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case

Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.

Main Author: Powell, Patricia Hruby, 1951- (Author)
Other Authors: Strickland, Shadra (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2017]
Subjects:
Loving, Richard Perry > Trials, litigation, etc. > Young adult fiction.
Loving, Mildred Jeter > Trials, litigation, etc. > Young adult fiction.
Interracial marriage > Law and legislation > Virginia > Younf adult fiction.
Virginia > Race relations > Young adult fiction.
Virginia > History > 20th century > Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction > Young adult.
Novels in verse > Young adult.
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Physical Description: 260 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-253).
ISBN: 9781452125909
1452125902
Author Notes: Patricia Hruby Powell's previous book, Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker , won a Sibert Honor for Nonfiction, a Coretta Scott King Honor, and five starred reviews. She lives in Illinois.

Shadra Strickland is an illustrator whose work has won an Ezra Jack Keats Award, a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, and an NAACP Image Award. She lives in Maryland.

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