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Surnames, by Counties and Cities, of Mixed Negroid Virginia Families Striving to Pass as “Indian” or White by Walter A. Plecker (ca. 1943) Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics Richmond, Virginia (Source: Encyclopedia Virginia) December 1943 To Local Registrars, Clerks, Legislators, and others responsible for, and interested in, the prevention of…
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[Walter] Plecker was obsessed with white racial purity, a cause he clearly connected to his belief that the United States was a white man’s country. In a 1924 speech before the American Public Health Association, Plecker claimed that when the English, Dutch and Scottish landed on the shores of North America, they came “to found…
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Policing the color line through vital documents.
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He built his career on the systematic oppression of blacks and Native Americans, becoming one of the country’s most influential white supremacists. For more than three decades, from 1912 until 1946, Walter Ashby Plecker used his position as head of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics to champion policies designed to protect what he considered a master…
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That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia [Smithers Review] Journal of American History Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016 pages 742-743 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jaw364 That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia By Arica L.…
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How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes The Washington Post 2015-07-01 Joe Heim, Staff Writer Walter A. Plecker’s goal as Virginia’s registrar of vital statistics was to ban race-mixing. He declared there were no true Indians left because of marriages with blacks. (Richmond Times-Dispatch) Virginia’s Indian tribes have faced…
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Kaine pushes for Indian recognition Sulfolk News-Herald Suffolk, Virginia 2014-10-02 Tracy Agnew, News Editor U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is making another push to recognize six Virginia Indian tribes, including the Nansemond, through his support of a proposed rule that would bring more flexibility to the process. The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of…
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Much of South America and Mexico is today inhabited by a mongrel race white-black-red mixture, one of the most undesirable racial intermixtures known, as I can testify from my own observation of similar groups in Virginia. W.A. Plecker, “The New Family and Race Improvement,” Virginia Department of Health: Virginia Health Bulletin, (Volume 17, Extra Number…