• Walter Ashby Plecker (April 2, 1861 – August 2, 1947) was an American physician and public health advocate who was the first registrar of Virginia's Bureau...
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  • Through the 1940s, Walter Plecker of Virginia and Naomi Drake of Louisiana had an outsized influence. As the Registrar of Statistics, Plecker insisted on labeling...
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    outgrowth of eugenicist and scientific racist propaganda, was pushed by Walter Plecker, a white supremacist and eugenicist who held the post of registrar of...
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    mandated every person who had any African heritage be deemed "black", Walter Plecker, the head of the vital Statistics office, directed all state and local...
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  • classification of all residents as white or black (colored). As implemented by Walter Plecker, the first registrar (1912–1946) of the newly created Virginia Bureau...
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  • African descent was similar to the racial zealotry demonstrated by Dr. Walter Plecker, state registrar of Virginia's Vital Statistics, and a major lobbyist...
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    self-determination One-drop rule Tribal disenrollment Tribal sovereignty Walter Plecker Charles Hudson, The Southeastern Indians, 1976, pg. 479 Professor Jack...
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  • changes resulting from the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 and the orders of Walter Plecker, the state registrar for the Bureau of Vital Statistics at the time...
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    ancestry as "negro", "mulatto", or "black". For instance, in Virginia, Walter Plecker, Registrar of Statistics, ordered records to be changed so that members...
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  • of 1924 and the work of state Bureau of Vital Statistics registrar Walter Plecker ensured that for most of the 20th century, official records recognized...
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  • years South African musician car Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Walter Plecker 1861 1947 86 years American physician and public health advocate pedestrian...
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    century—based on a binary society. With the early 20th-century pseudoscience of Walter Plecker and others came laws enforcing the "one-drop rule". Thus, anyone with...
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  • thus worked with alumnus John Powell, Major Earnest S. Cox and Dr. Walter Plecker (a physician who as state registrar vigorously enforced the 1924 Racial...
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  • and antisemitism Völkisch movement Volksfront Wallace Fard Muhammad Walter Plecker Warith Deen Mohammed Warren Jeffs Wesley A. Swift White Aryan Resistance...
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  • called in other state officials to help them review the film, including Walter Plecker, a supporter of eugenics who implemented the new act, and other known...
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    and Dr. Walter Plecker, Powell founded the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America in Richmond, Virginia. They worked closely with Walter Ashby Plecker to promote...
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  • The first registrar for the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics, Dr. Walter Plecker, who held the position from 1912 to 1946, refused to acknowledge that...
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  • Mitsawokett: A 17th Century Native American Community in Central Delaware. "Walter Plecker's Racist Crusade Against Virginia's Native Americans". Mitsawokett: A...
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  • governor of Rockingham Castle and steward of Rockingham Forest, England Walter Ashby Plecker (1861–1947), American physician and public health advocate Henry...
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    tribes. They were opposed by Walter Ashby Plecker, the head of the Bureau of Vital Statistics in Virginia (1912–1946). Plecker was a white supremacist and...
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    letter of Hamilton McMillan, under North Carolina.) In December 1943, Walter Ashby Plecker of Virginia sent county officials a letter warning against "colored"...
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  • Beginning in the 1920s, the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics, led by Walter Plecker, attempted to classify Indians such as Adams and her children as "colored"...
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  • Samuel Gasner Vondie Curtis-Hall as Henry Colton/Rena Anne Haney as Mrs. Plecker Bobcat Goldthwait as Mr. Conally (voice only) Robert Carradine as John...
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    the Lakeside area of campus, and is adjacent to the multimillion-dollar Plecker Athletic Center and a five story parking deck. A major stadium renovation...
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    establishing documented continuity of identity, due to the work of Walter Ashby Plecker (1912–1946). As registrar of the state's Bureau of Vital Statistics...
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    Levine, Brenna A.; Corush, Joel B.; Davis, Mark A.; Dwyer, Quetzal; De Plecker, Roel; Schuett, Gordon W. (June 2023). "Discovery of facultative parthenogenesis...
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