Racial Integrity Act of 1924
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title:
Racial Integrity Act of 1924
text:
In 1924, the Virginia General Assembly enacted the Racial Integrity Act. The act reinforced racial segregation by prohibiting interracial marriage and classifying as "white" a person "who has no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian". The act, an outgrowth of eugenicist and scientific racist propaganda, was pushed by Walter Plecker, a white supremacist and eugenicist who held the post of registrar of the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics. The Racial Integrity Act required that all
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Virginia anti-miscegenation law
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_Integrity_Act_of_1924
date created:
2004-10-20T21:05:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:01:34Z
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