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The documents behind the work. Each page shows the primary source, where it comes from, and what it means. Nothing here is paraphrased without a citation.
1943The Plecker letterA state registrar mails every county a list of surnames to watch.1924The Racial Integrity ActThe law that wrote a definition of "white" into Virginia code.1930The one-drop lawSix years later: any trace, and "Indian" narrowed to reservations.1906Edward Curtis and the staged photographThe funding, the headdress, the clock.1967Loving v. VirginiaThe 1924 Act reaches the Supreme Court.
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