In “Colored persons and Indians defined,” from the Code of Virginia (1887), the General Assembly provides legal definitions of colored persons and Indians.
Sec. 49. Colored persons and Indians defined.—Every person having one-fourth or more of negro blood shall be deemed a colored person, and every person not a colored person having one-fourth or more of Indian blood shall be deemed an Indian.
An act declaring who shall not bear office in this country (October 1705) An act declaring what persons shall be deemed mulattoes (October 1785) General Provisions as to Slaves (1860) An Act to amend and re-enact the 9th section of chapter 103 of the Code of Virginia for 1860 (1866) An Act to amend and re-enact section 49 of the Code of Virginia, 1887 (1910) An Act to provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths (1912) Colored Persons and Indians Defined (1924) Preservation of Racial Integrity (1924) Atha Sorrells v. A. T. Shields, Clerk, Petition for Mandamus (November 14, 1924) Separation of Races (1926) Colored Persons and Indians Defined (1930) Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Turner McDowell (September 27, 1937) Surnames, by Counties and Cities, of Mixed Negroid Virginia Families Striving to Pass as “Indian” or White by Walter A. Plecker (ca. 1943) Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Local Registrars, et al. (December 1943)
