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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • the Lovings were sentenced to prison for violating Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which criminalized marriage between people classified as "white"...
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  • Eugenics in the United States (category Social history of the United States)
    experimentation Poe v. Lynchburg Training School & Hospital (1981) Racial Integrity Act of 1924 Racial segregation in the United States Racism in the United States...
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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". David E...
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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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    representative of the person who died. Racial Integrity Act of 1924 Poe v. Lynchburg Training School & Hospital Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring...
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