In the year of 1967 the Loving vs. Virginia case went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court was throwing laws around about how its illegal for interracial marriages in the U.S. The plaintiffs in Loving vs. Virginia, Mildred Jeter Loving and Richard Perry Loving, were arrested in July 1958 for violating the terms of the Racial Integrity Act. Knowing that they would not be able to marry legally in Virginia, the couple left the state in June 1958 to marry in Washington, D.C. The law also included that it forbade interracial couples who married outside the state to live in Virginia as husband and wife. The Lovings' appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia was denied in 1966, getting them prepared for an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Virginia's Interracial Law. In the end, Loving vs. Virginia established the legal basis for a cultural effect one marriage. Over time, marriages between whites and African Americans became both more numerous and accepted.