[1] Residents of Central Point—Mildred's hometown—who were of African-Indian heritage were well aware of Virginia's racial mores and had an ingrained history of choosing to identify as anything other than black /

[2] Virginia's ruling class quickly lobbied to change the definition of "white" claming descent from Pocahontas and John Rolfe. Known as the Pocahontas Exception, a person with 1/16 American Indian ancestry would be considered white.

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The source text is from a letter Mildred Loving wrote to then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, asking that she and her husband be allowed to return to Virginia after the passing of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924. The two footnotes and the annotation "not black. I told the people so when they came to arrest me" are taken from or inspired by "What You Didn't Know About Loving v. Virginia, "an article by Arica L. Coleman which can be found [here].