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AAFTER US In this poem, the poet uses a surplus of imagery to allow the reader to fully see what she is trying to get us to picture. In the first line, she talks about how rain, which can be destructive or helpful, is seeping into a room where books and other material things reside. In the lines to follow, she writes about how everything that flourished under the sun, turned away to try and find the light that they so desperately need. This shows the destructive side to rain because it paints the picture of a dark day with rain falling and silencing all activities that happen during the day. In the second paragraph, the poet writes about a portrait, which has sketches of boats and barns and this creates the image of a perfect utopia where everything is peaceful and nothing has disturbed it. The paragraph that follows this peaceful picture, is where the foreboding and evil rain begins to make its appearance again. She writes about how everything that was ever thought of or invented or t
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LOVING

LLOVING 

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.

—Kenneth Chisholm
Richard Loving, a white construction worker in Caroline County, Virginia, falls in love with a local black woman and family friend, Mildred Jeter. Upon Mildred discovering that she is pregnant, they decide to marry, but knowing that interracial marriage violates Virginia's anti-miscegenation laws, they drive to Washington, D.C. to get married in 1958. Richard makes plans to build a house for Mildred less than a mile from her family home.

1958. Having grown up in the racially integrated rural community of Central Point in Caroline County, Virginia, it surrounded by the largely segregated American south, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, a white bricklayer and black woman respectively, fall in love and get married in a civil ceremony in the District of Columbia. However, such a union is not only not recognized, but interracial relationships are considered illegal by the Commonwealth of Virginia. County law enforcement and courts coming down hard on them - the initial plea bargained suspended sentence banning them from the state for twenty-five years - starts what ends up being their extended and very public legal battles at a national scope, with some risk to their own lives, to be able to live in loving peace in Caroline County in wanting to remain close to their family, which becomes all the more important to them as they begin a family of their own.


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