Virginia Racial Integrity Laws
Title
Virginia Racial Integrity Laws
Description
Included the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited interracial marriage Public Assemblages Act of 1926, which required all public meeting spaces to be strictly segregated; and a third act, passed in 1930, that defined as black a person who has even a trace of African American ancestry.
Source
Encyclopedia Virginia Virginia Humanities
Collection
Citation
“Virginia Racial Integrity Laws,” Fairfax County African American History Inventory, accessed October 24, 2026, https://fairfaxaahi.centerformasonslegacies.com/items/show/491.