Eugenics in Relation to the New Family and the Law on Racial Integrity.
Eugenics in Relation to the New Family and the Law on Racial Integrity. Including a paper read before the American Public Health Association.<br /><br />Pamphlet created by <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Plecker_Walter_Ashby_1861-1947" target="_blank" title="Encyclopedia VIrginia" rel="noreferrer noopener">W. A. Plecker</a>, M.D., <span>Virginia state registrar of vital statistics from 1912 to 1946. Plecker was an advocate of eugenics and white supremacy. He used Virginia's Act to Protect Racial Integrity (1924) to remove legal recognition of Native Americans in the state, instead classifying them as "colored." <br /><br />The Act to Protect Racial Integrity remained in effect until 1967 when it was overturned in the landmark case, <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1966/395" target="_blank" title="Oral argument, facts, and decision of the Court" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Loving v. Virginia</em></a>.<br /><br />Pamphlet sections: <br /><br />Introduction<br />Eugenics<br />Virginia's Attempt to Adjust the Color Problem (Read before the American Public Health Association, at Detroit, October 23, 1924.) <br />An Act to Preserve Racial Integrity<br />Appendix <br /><br /></span>
Plecker, W. A. (Walter Ashby Plecker)
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
Bureau of Vital Statistics, State Board of Health, Richmond, Va.
1925
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=eugenics" target="_blank" title="items tagged "eugenics"" rel="noreferrer noopener">Eugenics</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=white+supremacy" target="_blank" title="Items tagged "white supremacy"" rel="noreferrer noopener">White supremacy</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=race" target="_blank" title="items tagged "race"" rel="noreferrer noopener">Race</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><br />Heim, J. (2015 July, 1). <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/how-a-long-dead-white-supremacist-still-threatens-the-future-of-virginias-indian-tribes/2015/06/30/81be95f8-0fa4-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html" target="_blank" title="Washington Post article" rel="noreferrer noopener">How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes</a>. <em>The Washington Post. <br /><br /></em><a href="https://www.commonwealth.virginia.gov/virginia-indians/state-recognized-tribes/" target="_blank" title="Commonwealth of Virginia gov. website" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Recognized Tribes</a>, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Virginia Indians. <br /><br />Albiges, M. (2018 October, 4). <a href="https://apnews.com/3d04195b6e7a4a14a3b73e13b674ac97/Virginia's-Indian-tribes-celebrate-federal-recognition" target="_blank" title="Associated Press" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virginia’s Indian tribes celebrate federal recognition</a>. <em>Associated Press.<br /><br /></em>Richmond School of Social Economy, <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/538" target="_blank" title="School Bulletin. W. A. Plecker is listed as a special lecturer" rel="noreferrer noopener">First Annual Announcement, 1917-1918. Bulletin No. 1</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<em><br /></em>
Classroom Desegregation Will Never Work [broadside]
This broadside asserts “there is a basic, inherent mental difference between the races,” citing IQ tests and a booklet by Henry E. Garrett, <em>How Classroom Desegregation Will Work</em> (1966). <br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Garrett_(psychologist)" target="_blank" title="biographical information on Wikipedia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Henry Garrett</a> was at the forefront of a resurgence of racial pseudoscience in the mid-twentieth century. He argued for segregation in <em>Davis v. County School Board</em> (one of the cases in Brown v. Board), compiled a pamphlet of his essays for the white supremacist <a href="http://www.citizenscouncils.com/" target="_blank" title="About Citizens' Council" rel="noreferrer noopener">Citizens’ Council</a>, and his views were used to forward the work of other eugenicists. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />That is why Classroom Desegregation will <em>never</em> work: There is a basic, inherent mental difference between the races. If you mix the classrooms and gear the standards to Negroes, you deny White children their optimum chance. If you gear the standards to White mentality, you develop frustrations on the part of Negroes, with subsequent antagonisms, drop-outs, and "delinquencies...."<br /><br />Race differences, as an issue, is the overriding problem of our time. These differences are something too few of us know about. Now is the time to learn, before it is too late. If you <em>know</em> what you are talking about, you can help defeat Black Power. Only the truth will keep us free.
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The Patrick Henry Press, Richmond, Virginia
1960s
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><br />Door, Gregory Michael (2008). <em>Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia <br /><br /></em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_M._Shuey" target="_blank" title="biographical information on Audrey Shuey, student of Henry Garrett" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shuey, Audrey M</a>. (1966). <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/1966ShueyThetestingofnegrointelligencevol1/page/n1" target="_blank" title="The Testing of Negro Intelligence" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Testing of Negro Intelligence</a>, </em>second edition. <br /><br />Campbell, A. W. (2018). <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/discrimination/influence-controversy-races-mankind-brotherhood-man/" target="_blank" title="The Races of Mankind" rel="noreferrer noopener">Influence and Controversy. The Races of Mankind and The Brotherhood of Man</a>. Social Welfare History Project.