In 1924, the Virginia General Assembly enacted the Racial Integrity Act. The act reinforced racial segregation by prohibiting interracial marriage and...
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Walter Plecker (category History of racism in Virginia)
eugenicist and proponent of scientific racism, Plecker drafted and lobbied for the passage of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 by the Virginia legislature;...
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Melungeon (redirect from Tri racial isolate)
violation of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924. He identified these as being "chiefly Tennessee Melungeons". He directed the offices to reclassify members of certain...
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John Powell (musician) (category University of Virginia alumni)
in Virginia. He contributed to the drafting and passage of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which institutionalized the one-drop rule by classifying...
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anti-miscegenation laws, notably the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 in the state of Virginia, where he sought to codify his particular version of the "one-drop rule" into...
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Loving v. Virginia (redirect from Liberty of Marriage)
Mildred Loving, a person of color. In 1959, the Lovings were sentenced to prison for violating Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which criminalized...
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having secured the passing of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924. The organization has been described as "an elitist version of the Ku Klux Klan". Landon...
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the time, interracial marriage was banned in Virginia by the Racial Integrity Act of 1924. Mildred later stated that when they married, she did not realize...
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Naomi Drake (category History of Louisiana)
of Virginia's Vital Statistics, and a major lobbyist for its Racial Integrity Act of 1924. In 1938, in Sunseri v, Cassagne (191 La. 209, 185 So. 1 - affirmed...
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identified as Rappahannock or Indian. By the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, Virginia enforced a binary system of a one-drop rule, classifying all persons as...
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