Racial Integrity Act of 1924

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On 20 March 1924, the Virginia General Assembly passed The Racial Integrity Act. It prohibited interracial marriages, using a version of the one-drop rule.

The Act of is often conflated with eugenic sterilization laws, such as the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924, causing misleading impressions regarding what eugenics is.

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