American physician, eugenicist, and white supremacist activist (1861–1947)
Walter Plecker
Walter Plecker at the Bureau of Vital Statistics in 1935
Registrar for the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics
In office 1912–1946
Personal details
Born
(1861-04-02)April 2, 1861 Augusta County, Virginia, U.S.
Died
August 2, 1947(1947-08-02) (aged 86) Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
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 of Vital Statistics, serving from 1912 to 1946. He was a leader of the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America, a white supremacist organization founded in Richmond, Virginia, in 1922. A eugenicist and proponent of scientific racism, Plecker drafted and lobbied for the passage of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 by the Virginia legislature; it institutionalized the one-drop rule.
Plecker was killed after being struck by a car in 1947.
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...
outgrowth of eugenicist and scientific racist propaganda, was pushed by WalterPlecker, a white supremacist and eugenicist who held the post of registrar of...
mandated every person who had any African heritage be deemed "black", WalterPlecker, the head of the vital Statistics office, directed all state and local...
classification of all residents as white or black (colored). As implemented by WalterPlecker, the first registrar (1912–1946) of the newly created Virginia Bureau...
changes resulting from the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 and the orders of WalterPlecker, the state registrar for the Bureau of Vital Statistics at the time...
African descent was similar to the racial zealotry demonstrated by Dr. WalterPlecker, state registrar of Virginia's Vital Statistics, and a major lobbyist...
century—based on a binary society. With the early 20th-century pseudoscience of WalterPlecker and others came laws enforcing the "one-drop rule". Thus, anyone with...
of 1924 and the work of state Bureau of Vital Statistics registrar WalterPlecker ensured that for most of the 20th century, official records recognized...
ancestry as "negro", "mulatto", or "black". For instance, in Virginia, WalterPlecker, Registrar of Statistics, ordered records to be changed so that members...
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called in other state officials to help them review the film, including WalterPlecker, a supporter of eugenics who implemented the new act, and other known...
Mitsawokett: A 17th Century Native American Community in Central Delaware. "WalterPlecker's Racist Crusade Against Virginia's Native Americans". Mitsawokett: A...
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...
Beginning in the 1920s, the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics, led by WalterPlecker, attempted to classify Indians such as Adams and her children as "colored"...
letter of Hamilton McMillan of North Carolina)" In December 1943, Walter Ashby Plecker of Virginia sent county officials a letter warning against "colored"...
thus worked with alumnus John Powell, Major Earnest S. Cox and Dr. WalterPlecker (a physician who as state registrar vigorously enforced the 1924 Racial...
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...
Levine, Brenna A.; Corush, Joel B.; Davis, Mark A.; Dwyer, Quetzal; De Plecker, Roel; Schuett, Gordon W. (June 2023). "Discovery of facultative parthenogenesis...