Perhaps an item of interest.... In 1924, Virginia passes an " Act to Preserve Racial Integrity", outlawing miscegenation and denying certain rights to anyone that was not 100% white. Legislators made an acception to this rule, stating that citizens with one sixteenth Indian blood were classified white, This was done in an effort to save many influential family members of prestigious families from falling under the jurisdiction of this law. [ "The Pocahontas Exception"]. Frankie