Just 45 years ago, Virginia police invaded the home of the Lovings and arrested them for interracial marriage.

They were married in June 1958 - not in their native Virginia, where their interracial union was illegal - but 80 miles away in Washington, D.C.

Upon returning home, they were arrested in their bedroom. On Jan. 6, 1959, the Lovings pleaded guilty to two sections of Virginia law, one that prohibited interracial couples from marrying outside of state and returning, and the other that held miscegenation to be a felony. The sentence was suspended if the couple agreed to move out of Virginia for 25 years. Judge Leon M. Bazile declared that God separated the races because “he did not intend for the races to mix.”