March 20, 1924: On this date the State of Virginia passed the Racial Integrity Act of 1924. The act required registration at birth of race (White or Colored which included Native Americans). It also made interracial marriage illegal. The law was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1967 (Loving v Virginia). May 2, 2002, Governor Mark R. Warner issued a statement expressing “profound regret for the commonwealth’s role in the eugenics movement,” specifically naming Virginia’s 1924 compulsory sterilization legislation.
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