The Virginia Racial Integrity Act Revisited: The Plecker-Laughlin correspondence: 1928-1930Posted in Articles, History, Law, Politics/Public Policy, United States, Virginia on 2010-01-19 01:55Z by Steven |
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 Vital Statistics between 1912 and 1938, and Harry Hamilton Laughlin, Superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor between 1910 and 1939, provides evidence of efforts to enforce the Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924. After antimiscegenation policy is placed in a historical context, excerpts from the letters are offered to demonstrate the zeal with which one state official pursued this eugenic policy.
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