History Of Jim Crow's Segregation

Jim Crow’s segregation In the South had states passing codes to classify race, it became known as the "one-drop rule.'' The definition meaning is that if a single drop of "black blood" runs through your veins you’re black, this practice is known by many names such as "one black ancestor rule," "traceable amount rule," and "hypo-descent rule," it meant that mixed race people were assigned to the status of a minority group. The first registrar of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics was Dr. Walter Plecker, he used his theory of eugenics to defined “pure whites,” in the Racial Integrity Act his standards were classified by the General Assembly to state “any black ancestor, no matter how many generations ago, would disqualify someone from being