The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko

The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko

"I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about." -- Mildred Loving, June 12, 2007For most children these days it would come as a great shock to know that before 1967, they could not marry a person of a race different from their own. That was the year that the Supreme Court issued its decision in Loving v. Virginia.This is the story of one brave family: Mildred Loving, Richard Perry Loving, and their three children. It is the story of how Mildred and Richard fell in love, and got married in Washington, D.C. But when they moved back to their hometown in Virginia, they were arrested (in dramatic fashion) for violating that state's laws against interracial marriage. The Lovings refused to allow their children to get the message that their parents' love was wrong and so they fought the unfair law, taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court - and won!

Selina Alko has always been fascinated by diverse people and cultures, which she attributes to her upbringing with a Canadian mother and a Turkish father who taught her to paint and knew seven languages. Her work is full of hope, experimentation, and a strong belief in multiculturalism and human rights. She is the author of The Case for Love, which she co-illustrated with her husband, Sean Qualls, and the co-illustrator of Two Friends by Dean Robbins, which she also co-illustrated with Sean. She's also the author and illustrator of Daddy Christmas & Hanukkah Mom and B Is for Brooklyn, two additional critically recognized picture books. Her family and she live in Brooklyn, New York.

Visit selinaalko.com for more information. When she was a tiny child, Paige Britt has been asking huge questions. Her quest for answers prompted her to develop novels that encourage young readers to ponder, discover, and remain curious about life's mysteries. Publishers Weekly praised her debut novel, The Lost Track of Time, as an exhilarating ode to the power of imagination in a starred review.

Why am I the way I am? Her spouse and she live near Austin, Texas. Paige Britt's website is paigebritt.com. Old buildings, nature, fairy tales, black relics, and outsider art all inspire Sean Qualls, as do cave paintings, African iconography, mythology, music, and his hometown of Brooklyn.

He and his wife, Selina Alko, are the co-illustrators of the acclaimed picture books Two Friends by Dean Robbins and The Case for Love by Selina Alko. Some notable picture books he has illustrated include Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee's Giant Steps to Changing the World, Toni Morrison and her son Slade's Little Cloud and Lady Wind, Jonah Winter's Dizzy, and Carole Boston Weatherford's Before John Was a Jazz Giant, for which he earned a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. His family and he live in Brooklyn, New York. Sean Qualls' website is seanqualls.com.

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ISBN 13	9780545478533
ISBN 10	0545478537
Title	The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
Author	Selina Alko
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Arthur A. Levine Books
Year published	2015-01-27
Number of pages	40
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.