To succeed, the intermarriage of the white race with mixed stock must be made impossible.

Unless radical measures are used to prevent it, Virginia and other parts of the Nation must surely in time go the way of all other countries in which people of two or more races have lived in close contact. With the exception of the Hebrew race, complete intermixture or amalgamation has been the inevitable result.

To succeed, the intermarriage of the white race with mixed stock must be made impossible. But that is not sufficient, public sentiment must be so aroused that intermixture out of wedlock will cease.

The public must be led to look with scorn and contempt upon the man who will degrade himself and do harm to society by such abhorrent deeds.

W. A. Plecker, “The New Virginia Law To Preserve Racial Integrity,” Virginia Health Bulletin,Volume XVI, Extra Number 2 (March 1924): 2. http://lva.omeka.net/items/show/62.

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