Racial Integrity Act of 1924

Mm-hmm

... hierarchies, of course not, right? So it's a personal choice on what you believe you are, but when a government creates a law, and by the way, this law is called the Racial Integrity Act of 1924.

Mm-hmm.

It started in Virginia.

Sure.

One of the diagnosis that they used for committing people was, quote, feeble-mindedness.

Mm-hmm.

feeble-minded it was it's kind of a broad category um a

He was an American Revolutionary War soldier, and he had children by two different women.

One was an upstanding woman.

She was a Quaker, and she had seven, quote, worthy children.

According to his family records, a 1912 book written by eugenicist Henry Herbert Goddard said these descendants became respectable citizens, men and women prominent in every phase of life.