Racial Integrity Act of 1924

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.

See also

• Earnest Sevier Cox