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The Racial Integrity Act of 1924 of Virginia, United States, was a law that had required that a racial description of every person be recorded at birth, and prevented marriage between "white persons" and non-white persons. The law was created in Virginia in the United States, and was overturned by the United States Supreme Court in 1967, in Loving v. Virginia. This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States...
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
Holding Virginias prohibition of interracial marriage violated the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. ...
Wisconsin was the first State to enact legislation that required the medical certification of persons who applied for marriage licenses. The law that was enacted in 1913 generated attempts at similar legislation in other States. By 1924, 15 States had enacted similar legislation; however, unlike Virginia, many or most or all of those States failed to rigidly enforce their laws requiring specific qualities in all persons seeking to marry. Official language(s) None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Area Ranked 23rd - Total 65,498 sq. ...
Senate bill 219 (SB 219) was approved on March 20, 1924. SB 219 is a separate law from SB 281, which was also approved on that day (along with other Acts). SB 281 is titled: An ACT to provide for the sexual sterilization of inmates of State institutions in certain cases. In some instances, those two bills have erroneously been regarded as being one law. March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ...
1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
This law was subject to the "Pocahontas exception"—since many influential families claimed descendence from Pocahontas, the legislature declared that a person could be considered white with as much as one-sixteenth Indian ancestry. A 1616 engraving of Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe, the only portrait of Pocahontas made within her lifetime. ...
An exacerbating amendment or series of statutes to the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 was under consideration by the General Assembly in February, 1926. If adopted, the legislation would have brought the reclassification of thousands of "white" people. They would have become either "colored" or "nonwhite." Two former Governors would have been reclassified to being either "colored" or "nonwhite."
The origins of the Act were both in traditional concerns about "intermixture" but also had strong support from the "scientific racism" of the eugenics movement. In particular, New York eugenicist Madison Grant worked to ensure his model of the "one-drop rule" was implemented by the Virginia Registrar of Statistics, Walter Ashby Plecker, who developed the racial criteria behind the act. Scientific racism is racist propaganda disguised as science. ...
Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution: Logo from the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921, depicting it as a tree which unites a variety of different fields. ...
Madison Grant in the early 1920s. ...
The one-drop theory (or one-drop rule) is the colloquial term for the standard, found throughout the USA, that holds that a person with even one drop of non-white ancestry should be classified as colored, especially for the purposes of laws forbidding inter-racial marriage. ...
Walter Ashby Plecker (2 April 1861–1947) was a medical doctor and public health advocate who was the first registrar of Virginias Bureau of Vital Statistics. ...
The Racial Integrity Act began to crumble on June 12, 1967 when the United States Supreme Court decided Loving v. Virginia. The portion of the law which had prohibited marriages between "whites" and "nonwhites" was found to be contrary to the guarantees of the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1975, Virginia's General Assembly repealed the rest of the Racial Integrity Act. In 2001, a bill (HJ607ER) passed by a vote of 85-10 in the House and 40-0 in the Senate. The bill expressed the General Assembly's profound regret for its role in the eugenics movement. On May 2, 2002, Governor Mark Warner issued a statement also expressing "profound regret for the Commonwealth's role in the eugenics movement," specifically naming Virginia's 1924 compulsory sterilization legislation.[1] Holding Virginias prohibition of interracial marriage violated the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. ...
Compulsory sterilization programs are government policies which attempt to force people to undergo surgical sterilization. ...
See also
The Immorality Act was one of the most controversial legislative acts of South African Apartheid. ...
Carrie Buck was a patient sentenced to compulsory sterilization. ...
1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
External links Wikisource has original text related to this article: Racial Integrity Act of 1924 - Modern Indians
- Eugenics archive
- "Eugenic Laws Against Race Mixing" by Paul Lombardo, University of Virginia
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