Loving v. Virginia was a landmark civil rights case in the United States that dealt with the issue of interracial marriage. The case was brought to the Supreme Court in 1967 by Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter Loving, a Black woman, who had been sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other in Virginia, where interracial marriage was illegal under the state's anti-miscegenation laws.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of the Lovings, declaring that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. The decision invalidated all remaining state laws banning interracial marriage in the United States.

The Loving v. Virginia case was a significant victory for civil rights and helped pave the way for future legal challenges to racial discrimination. It also highlighted the struggles faced by interracial couples in the United States and brought attention to the importance of marriage equality for all individuals, regardless of race.