Tag: Walter Plecker

  • Documentary Genocide: Families Surnames on Racial Hit List Richmond Times-Dispatch 2000-03-05 Peter Hardin, Former Washington Correspondent   Long before the Indian woman gave birth to a baby boy, Virginia branded him with a race other than his own.   The young Monacan Indian mother delivered her son at Lynchburg General Hospital in 1971. Proud of…

  • 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 campaign for racial purity and the erosion of paternalism in Virginia, 1922-1930: “nominally white, biologically mixed, and legally Negro”. The Journal of Southern History Volume 68, Number 1 (February 2002) pages 65-106 J. Douglas Smith In September 1922 John Powell, a Richmond native and world-renowned pianist and composer, and Earnest Sevier Cox, a self-proclaimed…

  • Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 21, Number 2 (1988) pages 421-452 Paul A. Lombardo, Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law Georgia State University This Essay explores private correspondence contained in a restricted manuscript collection along with contemporary news accounts and government documents to…

  • The Virginia Racial Integrity Act Revisited: The Plecker-Laughlin correspondence: 1928-1930 American Journal of Medical Genetics Volume 16, Issue 4 Pages 483 – 492 December 1983 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320160407 Philip Reilly University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas   Margery Shaw University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas Correspondence between Walter Ashby Plecker, Virginia State Registrar of…