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The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage Hardcover – January 27, 2015

by Selina Alko (Author, Illustrator),
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  • Age Range: 4 - 8 years
  • Grade Level: Preschool - 3
  • Lexile Measure: AD720L (What's this?)
  • Hardcover: 40 pages
  • Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books (January 27, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0545478537
  • ISBN-13: 978-0545478533
  • Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 0.4 x 10.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsWonderfully thoughtful.
By Celeste Pewter on February 14, 2015
Format: Hardcover
A friend once sagely remarked to me that it it's important to have meaningful literature for younger kids, because it helps make a big difference in how they begin to view the world. They learn to be more open and more accepting, and eventually help pass that openess and acceptance on to future generations.

I've read many picture books that have fit that criteria over the years, but none which have struck a chord with me as much as The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage. Author Selina Alko shares the real-life story of the Loving family, an Afrian-American woman and a Caucasian man who fall in love and get married in 1958.

However, because of state laws in Virginia at the time, their relationship is considered a felony. Facing potential prison time, the couple is forced to leave Virginia, and make their home in Washington D.C. However, the couple decides to show that their love isn't wrong, and takes their case all the way to the Supreme Court - winning in a landmark decision.

Alko takes what is actually a very complex real-life story, and beatifully streamlines it for younger readers. She warmly shows the love that brings Richard and Mildred together, while also being careful to touch upon the tensions and the unfortunate historical precedent which dictated the laws designed to keep them apart.

The court case itself is also beautifully explained, with Alko quickly getting to the heart of the issue: that love is love, and these are just two people who want to prove to their family that their relationship is one to be proud of.

Alko also collaborated with husband Sean Qualls for the first time on the illustrations, jointly using paint and collage to tell Mildred and Richard's story.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsAnd send all my Loving to you
By E. R. Bird HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on July 1, 2015
Format: Hardcover
When the Supreme Court ruled on June 26, 2015 that same-sex couples could marry in all fifty states, I found myself, like many parents of young children, in the position of trying to explain the ramifications to my offspring. Newly turned four, my daughter needed a bit of context. After all, as far as she was concerned gay people had always had the right to marry so what exactly was the big deal here? In times of change, my back up tends to be children’s books that discuss similar, but not identical, situations. And what book do I own that covers a court case involving the legality of people marrying? Why, none other than “The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage” by creative couple Selina Alko and Sean Qualls. It’s almost too perfect that the book has come out the same year as this momentous court decision. Discussing the legal process, as well as the prejudices of the time, the book offers to parents like myself not just a window to the past, but a way of discussing present and future court cases that involve the personal lives of everyday people. Really, when you take all that into consideration, the fact that the book is also an amazing testament to the power of love itself . . . well, that’s just the icing on the cake.

In 1958 Richard Loving, a white man, fell in love with Mildred Jeter, a black/Native American woman. Residents of Virginia, they could not marry in their home state so they did so in Washington D.C. instead. Then they turned right around and went home to Virginia. Not long after they were interrupted in the night by a police invasion. They were charged with “unlawful cohabitation” and were told in no uncertain terms that if they were going to continue living together then they needed to leave Virginia.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsTimely, Topical, Wonderful
By Leslie Lindsay on February 16, 2015
Format: Hardcover
When I came across this book, THE CASE FOR LOVING by Selina Alko and Sena Qualls, a bi-racial couple (Arthur A. Levine, an Imprint of Scholastic, February 2015), I knew I needed to share it. It’s not only about love, but about black history, a wonderful marriage of the cultural themes present in the month of February.

Imagine not being able to marry the person you love. It may not be for the obvious reasons, but because they are a race different from your own. Once upon a time in the not so distant past, there was a law that forbade interracial marriage. This is the story of Richard and Mildred Loving. He had red hair and a fair complexion. She was the color of caramel and had some Cherokee blood coarsing through her veins. They lived in Central Point, Virginia in 1958.

At that time, marriage between people of different races was against the law in Virgina and sixteen other states! It wasn’t fair. Sure, one hundred years earlier, slavery divided America along color lines. But slavery had ended. Still yet, old–false–beliefs sustained. If someone wanted to marry someone of a different skin color–one unlike your own–you could go to jail.

Still, Mildred and Richard wanted to married and they sure didn’t want to go to prison for falling in love with the ‘wrong’ person.

What ensues might be predictable. Neighbors were upset, the police got involved. Lawyers were hired. And now it was 1966…the times were a-changin’. Radical new ideas like equal rights for people of all colors were replacing old, fearful ways of thinking. The Loving’s case went all the way to the Supreme Court!

On June 12, 1967 when the case of Loving vs. Virginia went to court, Richard and Mildred stayed home with their three children. They feared they wouldn’t win. But they did!Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsbut we think the content is great and she'll grow into it

our child was under a year old when we bought this, but we think the content is great and she'll grow into it, something we won't mind reading again and again

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5.0 out of 5 starsCute book

Cute book, good story. My girlfriend loves it and that gets 5 stars.

Published 2 months ago by Jesse Nordman
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Absolutely loved this book :) Thank you Loving couple for making my relationship legal...lol

Published 5 months ago by JustMe :)
3.0 out of 5 starsA nice story, some of it true

As other reviewers have noted, it's book that can be used. But my initial response to it remains: a nice piece of feel-good fiction for very young readers. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Peter Wallenstein
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great book, love the illustrations

Published 6 months ago by Zinnia May
5.0 out of 5 starsget it!

We love this book! Great tool to start bigger conversations that kids can comprehend (5 year old)

Published 8 months ago by Thomas
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

great discussion starter

Published 8 months ago by M. Fuka
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Perfect way to honor this special couple.

Published 9 months ago by C. Iola
3.0 out of 5 starsPolice even came when they were about to wuv each other in bed!

Really, humans of different flesh colors and facial features (as long as they're not aliens from Mars, of course) have every right to beam pretty pink feelings at each other - if... Read more

Published 11 months ago by Banshee
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Excellent, wish many people knew the story.

Published 12 months ago by Kay Geter

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