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Colored Persons and Indians Defined (1924)

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In “Colored persons and Indians defined,” from the Code of Virginia (1924), the General Assembly provides legal definitions of “colored persons” and Indians.

Author: General Assembly
    Transcription Source: The Code of Virginia, as Amended to Adjournment of General Assembly 1924 (Charlottesville: The Michie Company, 1924), 24.

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    § 67. Colored persons and Indians defined.—Every person having one-sixteenth or more of negro blood shall be deemed a colored person, and every person not a colored person having one-sixteenth or more of Indian blood shall be deemed an Indian. (Code 1887, § 49; 1910, p. 581.)

    FURTHER READING

    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) Preservation of Racial Integrity (1924) Atha Sorrells v. A. T. Shields, Clerk, Petition for Mandamus (November 14, 1924) 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)

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    General Assembly. Colored Persons and Indians Defined (1924). (2020, December 07). In Encyclopedia Virginia. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/colored-persons-and-indians-defined-1924.
    MLA Citation:
    General Assembly. "Colored Persons and Indians Defined (1924)" Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, (07 Dec. 2020). Web. 08 Dec. 2023
    Last updated: 2020, December 07
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