Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924

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The Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924 was a state law enforcing racial segregation and prohibiting interracial marriage by rigidly defining racial categories, later invalidated as unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jim Crow law
anti-miscegenation law
racial segregation law
state law
abolishedBy Loving v. Virginia
appliesTo marriage between persons classified as white and persons classified as non-white
vital records and registration of births and marriages in Virginia
appliesToJurisdiction Virginia
surface form: Commonwealth of Virginia
country United States of America
dateAbolished 1967
dateEnacted 1924
declaredUnconstitutionalBy Loving v. Virginia
defines legal racial categories
who is legally classified as colored
who is legally classified as white
enforcedBy Virginia state and local officials
hasEffect criminalized interracial marriage in Virginia
reinforced the one-drop rule in Virginia
restricted civil rights of non-white residents in Virginia
hasLegalForm statute
hasTitle Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924 self-linksurface differs
surface form: Racial Integrity Act
historicalContext American eugenics era
post-Reconstruction segregation era
inspiredBy eugenics movement in the United States
white supremacist ideology
jurisdiction Virginia
languageOfWork English
legalConsequence subjected violators to criminal penalties
voided marriages that violated racial classifications
legalStatus invalidated
legislativeBody Virginia General Assembly
locationEnacted Richmond, Virginia
mainSubject interracial marriage
race classification
racial segregation
opposedBy civil rights advocates
partOf Jim Crow laws in Virginia
prohibits interracial marriage
marriage between white persons and non-white persons
purpose to define racial categories in Virginia law
to enforce racial segregation
to prohibit interracial marriage
regulates marriage licenses
relatedCase Loving v. Virginia
Naim v. Naim
state Virginia
timePeriod 20th century
yearEnacted 1924

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Loving v. Virginia overturnedLaw Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924
Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924 hasTitle Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924 self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Racial Integrity Act