Virginia Racial Integrity Act

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Virginia_Racial_Integrity_Act
GPTKB entity
Statements (24)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:law
gptkbp:affects gptkb:African-American
gptkb:Native_Americans
mixed-race individuals
gptkbp:challenge gptkb:Loving_v._Virginia
gptkbp:dateEnacted 1924
gptkbp:declaredUnconstitutionalBy gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:declaredUnconstitutionalOn 1967
gptkbp:enactedBy gptkb:Virginia_General_Assembly
gptkbp:historicalSignificance major example of institutionalized racism in the United States
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Virginia Racial Integrity Act
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:eugenics_movement
gptkbp:location gptkb:Virginia
gptkbp:penalty felony
gptkbp:prohibits marriage between white and non-white persons
gptkbp:purpose to prevent interracial marriage
to classify individuals by race
gptkbp:relatedTo anti-miscegenation laws
one-drop rule
gptkbp:repealedBy 1967
gptkbp:requires racial classification on birth certificates
gptkbp:sponsor gptkb:Walter_Plecker
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Racial_Integrity_Act_of_1924
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7