Richmond Times Dispatch for Feb. 12, 1926

Richmond Times Dispatch

Feb. 12, 1926 

RACIAL INTEGRITY BILL REPORTED OUT

House General Laws Body

Acts Favorably on Amended

Measure

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GOES ON CALENDAR

Stripped of Provisions 

Classifying Indian Blood

as Colored

The amended racial integrity bill

was favorably reported late yesterday

afternoon by the House Committee on

General Laws, in executive session and 

will now go on the House calendar.

Stripped of the provisions that would hav

classified as non-white descendants

of many prominent families fused with the 

blood of Indian Chiefs, the measure

retain the maximum penalty of five years' 

imprisonment for marriage between whie and 

non-white races.

Indians living on reservations in Virginia and

foreign non-white white students are

classed as white.

Non-whites are defined in the following

language; 

"That persons deriving from mixed Indian groups, resident within or without the State of Virginia such as are known and designated as "Melungeons" "Red Bones" "Moors" Mixed Indian or others, shall be deemed to be non-white.

A person of the white race is defined as to be a person whose blood is entirely white having no known demonstrable or ascertainable admixture of the blood of another race.

The amended bill provides that parties to marriage prior to June 17, 1924 whose blood mixture was white and North American Indian blood, and their legal descendants shall be deemed to be white persons.