Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Virginia_Racial_Integrity_Act_of_1924
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Statements (26)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:law
gptkbp:category gptkb:Anti-miscegenation_law
gptkb:Jim_Crow_law
gptkbp:dateEnacted 1924
gptkbp:defines white person as having no trace of non-white ancestry
gptkbp:effect racial classification on birth and marriage certificates
criminalized interracial marriage
gptkbp:enactedBy gptkb:Virginia_General_Assembly
gptkbp:enforcedBy gptkb:Virginia_Bureau_of_Vital_Statistics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924
gptkbp:influencedBy white supremacist ideology
gptkbp:location gptkb:Virginia
gptkbp:notableCase gptkb:Loving_v._Virginia
gptkbp:prohibits marriage between white and non-white persons
gptkbp:purpose to define racial categories
to prevent interracial marriage
gptkbp:relatedGroup gptkb:African-American
gptkb:Native_Americans
gptkb:Asians
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Eugenics_movement
gptkb:Sterilization_Act_of_1924
gptkbp:repealedBy 1967
Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia
gptkbp:sponsor gptkb:Walter_Plecker
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Loving_v._Virginia
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5