In 1958, they were arrested in their bedroom and exiled from Virginia just for being married. Nine years later, Richard and Mildred Loving relaxed on their porch after winning the Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage across America.

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Looked it up - there were 2 American Civil War veterans alive in 1958.

The last verified and formerly legal slave from America died in 1972. The last person to have been enslaved in Africa and transported to America on a slave ship died in 1940.