Central Point is an unincorporated community in Caroline County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.[1]
Central Point, Virginia | |
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 St. Stephen's Baptist Church in Central Point | |
  Central Point Location in Virginia  Central Point Location in the contiguous United States | |
| Coordinates: 37°59′20″N 77°07′56″W / 37.98889°N 77.13222°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State |  Virginia |
| County | Caroline |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
History
editLoving v. Virginia
editRichard Loving and Mildred Jeter grew up in Central Point. He was white and she was Rappahannock and African American in ancestry, identifying as Indian (a classification the state disallowed under its binary system of "white" or "colored"). In this small community people shared their lives and work, and the couple fell in love. In 1958 they married in Washington, D.C., but returned here to live, thus violating state law against interracial marriages. They were arrested and charged, and forced to leave the state for 25 years to avoid being jailed. They moved to Washington, D.C., but challenged the law, as they wanted to go home. Their case reached the US Supreme Court, where in Loving v. Virginia (1967), the state's anti-miscegenation law was overturned for violating the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects due process and equal rights under the law.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Central Point, Virginia". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Virginia's Central Point, "symbolic of Main Street USA,"' Washington Post, Carol Morello, February 10, 2012
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