Category: Virginia

  • Racial Integrity Act of 1924 (State legislature of Virginia) The Racial Integrity Act of 1924 of Virginia, United States, was a law that had required the racial makeup of persons to be recorded at birth, and prevented marriage between “white persons” and non-white persons. The law was the most famous ban on miscegenation in the…

  • “The Last Stand”: The Fight for Racial Integrity in Virginia in the 1920s Richard B. Sherman, Chancellor Professor of History College of William and Mary The Journal of Southern History Volume 54, Number 1 (February, 1988) pages 69-92 By the 1920s many southern whites had come to believe that the race question was settled. White…

  • John Powell: His Racial and Cultural Ideologies Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online Volume 5, Issue 1 (2006) 14 pages David Z. Kushner, Professor Emeritus of Musicology/Music History University of Florida The opening of the first movement of the Symphony in A Major “Virginia Symphony” (Allegro non troppo ma con brio). QuickTime-format, WindowsMedia-format Following John…

  • “You Can’t Put People In One Category Without Any Shades of Gray:” A Study of Native American, Black, Asian, Latino/a and White Multiracial Identity Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia May 2011 180 pages Melissa Faye Burgess Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment…

  • Notes on the state of Virginia: Africans, Indians and the paradox of racial integrity Union Institute and University June 2005 277 pages AAT 3196614 Publication Number: AAT 3196614 ISBN: 9780542425899 Arica L. Coleman, Assistant Professor of Black American Studies Unverisity of Delaware Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of…

  • Constructing and Contesting Color Lines: Tidewater Native Peoples and Indianness in Jim Crow Virginia George Washington University 2009-01-31 392 pages Laura Janet Feller A Dissertation submitted to The Faculty of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences of The George Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements  for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy…

  • Virginia’s Attempt to Adjust the Color Problem The American Journal of Public Health Volume 15, Number 2 (1925) pages 111-115 W. A. Plecker, M.D., Fellow A.P.H.A. State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Richmond, Virginia Read at the joint session of the Public Health Administration and Vital Statistics Sections of the American Public Health Association at the…

  • The Loving Story Silverdocs Documentary Festival (2011-06-20 through 2011-06-26) Silver Spring, Maryland Augusta Films, LLC 2011 77 minutes Thursday, 2011-06-23, 14:45 EDT (Local Time) Friday, 2011-06-24, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Official Website: www.lovingfilm.com Director and Producer: Nancy Buirski Producer and Editor: Elisabeth Haviland James Screenwriters: Nancy Buirski and Susie Ruth Powell Mildred and Richard Loving,…

  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 98, Issue 1 (2011) Pages 154-155 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar004 Brenda E. Stevenson, Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. By Annette Gordon-Reed. (New York: Norton, 2008. 802 pp. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-393-06477-3. Paper, ISBN 978-0-393-33776-1.)…

  • Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy University of Virginia Press 1998 305 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8139-1833-4 Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of History Harvard University When Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas…