I missed this on the day
Hat tip to Bill Poser: In 1958 a Virginia couple were rousted from their bed in the middle of the night by a county sheriff, arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime of miscegenation, for which they were sentenced to a year in jail. With the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union, they appealed the conviction all the way to the Supreme Court, which on June 12, 1967 ruled unanimously that the Virginia law against inter-racial marriage violated the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution and overturned the convictions.
Mildred Loving died on Friday, May 2, at the age of 68.
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At 7:15 PM, May 06, 2008
Anonymous had this to say...
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At 7:16 PM, May 06, 2008
Anonymous had this to say...
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At 8:03 PM, May 06, 2008
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Thanks for posting this. I didn't realize she had died. The Lovings were a remarkable, courageous couple; far more heroic than many of those whom manage to be immortalized in ballads.
Scratch the "whom" - I think it should be "who." In any case, please let me know which is right and why.
It's "who". It's the subject of the verb "manage", thus needs to be in nominative (subject) case.
Getting "whom" right is tricky because it's falling out of use. It's especially tricky when it's in a relative clause - for instance "give it to whoever needs it" is correct, though "give it to whomever it belongs to" is correct.
So for your sentence, "many of those whom we immortalize in ballads" would be right.
I'll be glad when "whom" vanishes and "who" joins its cousins "what" and "which" in having no case marking.
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