Overturning Anti-Miscegenation Laws

News Media Coverage of the Lovings’ Legal Case Against the State of Virginia

Bibliographic Data

ID19003786
AuthorsJennifer Hoewe (0000-0001-7340-7301, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, corresponding author), Geri Alumit Zeldes (0000-0002-7823-9906, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, USA)
Year2011
Volume43
Issue4
Pages427-443
Publication date2011-11-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021934711428070
PMID22834052
OpenAlexW1963907132
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited27

This study fills a gap in scholarship by exploring historical news coverage of interracial relationships. It examines coverage by The New York Times, Washington Post and Times-Herald, and Chicago Tribune of the progression of the landmark civil rights case of Loving v. Virginia, in which the Supreme Court overturned Virginia's anti-miscegenation law, which prohibited marriage between any White and non-White person. An analysis of the frames and sources used in these publications' news stories about the case indicate all three publications' coverage favored the Lovings

Criminology · Political science · Sociology · Discrimination and Equality Law · Human Rights and Development · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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