Segregation & public facilities
The Racial Integrity Act and the Bureau of Vital Statistics
Enacted 20 March 1924; struck down 12 June 1967 in Loving v. VirginiaCapitol Square: the General Assembly and the Bureau of Vital Statistics, Richmond, VA
Virginia made it a crime for a white person to marry anyone with any trace of other ancestry, and put a eugenicist registrar in Richmond in charge of deciding who was what. His re-labelling of Virginia Indians as colored is still called a paper genocide.
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