Naomi Drake
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Naomi Drake
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Naomi Ruth was an American who became notable in mid-20th century Louisiana as the Registrar of the Bureau of Vital Statistics for the City of New Orleans (1949–1965), where she imposed strict racial classifications on people under a binary system that recognized only "white" and "black". She unilaterally changed records to classify mixed-race individuals as black if she found they had any black ancestry, an application of hypodescent rules, and did not notify people of her actions. In other cas
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American statistics registrar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Drake
date created:
2010-04-21T19:54:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T21:24:45Z
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