Text copyright © 2017 by Patricia Hruby Powell.
Illustrations copyright © 2017 by Shadra Strickland.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Powell, Patricia Hruby, 1951- author. | Strickland, Shadra, illustrator.
Title: Loving vs. Virginia : a documentary novel of the Landmark Civil Rights case / by Patricia Hruby Powell ; artwork by Shadra Strickland.
Other titles: Loving versus Virginia
Description: San Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books, [2017] | Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Identifiers: LCCN 2014045089 | ISBN 9781452125909 (Hardcover) | ISBN 9781452153315 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Loving, Richard Perry--Trials, litigation, etc.—Juvenile fiction. | Loving, Mildred Jeter--Trials, litigation, etc.—Juvenile fiction. | Interracial marriage--Law and legislation--Virginia--Juvenile fiction. | Virginia--Race relations--Juvenile fiction. | Virginia--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Loving, Richard Perry--Trials, litigation, etc.—Fiction. | Loving, Mildred Jeter--Trials, litigation, etc.--Fiction. | Interracial marriage--Fiction. | Race relations--Fiction. | African Americans—Fiction. | Virginia--History--20th century--Fiction. | GSAFD: Historical fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.5.P69 Lo 2017 | DDC 813.54--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2014045089
Design by Jennifer Tolo Pierce.
Typeset in Eames Century Modern, Futura STD, Brandon Printed, and Toronto Gothic.
The illustrations in this book were rendered in brush pen and Adobe Photoshop.
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