Obama Wins the Primary
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June 3rd, 2008: On the final day of the 2008 Presidential Primary, Barack Obama receives enough Democratic party delegates to become the first African-American presidential candidate of a major political party.
Almost exactly 50 years ago – a blip of time in the eons of nations – Virginia Sheriff Garnett Brooks bust into the home of Mildred and Richard Loving in the middle of the night and stood over the waking couple, who were confused, and not a little afraid. They were arrested for the heinous crime of getting married.
Richard was white and Mildred was black, and that was agin the law in Virginia.
It took nearly ten years and a decision of the Supreme Court to allow them to live together once again. RIchard died in 1975, worn out. Mildred died last month, at age 68.
