Mildred Loving tribute [audio 5min@39:40]

Rupert Cornwall pays tribute to a quiet hero of the struggle for civil rights in America, who died earlier this month. American woman who fought the ban on interracial marriage who has died aged 86. Mildred Loving was a reluctant heroine. In 1967 the young black woman’s marriage to a white man led to a landmark ruling by the United States Supreme Court. She died May 2nd 2008. Cornwall is US correspondent for Britain's Independent newspaper.