ID# 1306:
"The New Family and Race Improvement," by W.A. Plecker, Virginia Health Bulletin (vol.17:12)
Date:
1925
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16)
Source:
University of Albany, SUNY, Estabrook, SPE,XMS 80.9 Bx 1 folder1-32

&quote;The New Family and Race Improvement,&quote; by W.A. Plecker, Virginia Health Bulletin (vol.17:12)

Introduction The purpose of this, the fifth of the New Family series of booklets, is to place before the better class of young people of Virginia knowledge as to the two great dangers threatening the integrity and supremacy of the native white American race. These dangers are: 1. The relative decrease in the birth-rate of upper and middle classes of whites as a result of the "Race Suicide" movement, and changed conditions of living. 2. The ultimate and complete intermixture of the white and colored races if they continue to live together. The extent of this mixture already is shown by the fact that one-fourth of the colored race is mulatto, and that some lower classes of whites have been entering into marriage relations with these mulattoes, regardless of their negro blood. The remedies are self-evident: The better class of whites must realize that there are two crimes against their race tending towards its ruin: 1. Interference with the normal increase in the growth of the family. 2. Mixture of their blood with that of another race, whether in wedlock or out of wedlock. Inducing our young people to adopt these thoughts as essential fundamental principles, and to be guided by them, is the great task of those who love their country and who would save it for the Anglo-Saxon race. The principle of racial purity applies with the same force to the colored race and should be equally insisted upon by those who seek the real welfare of that race, and not racial amalgamation, as the most desirable end. The other New Family booklets, which will be sent free upon request while available, are: [3] [end]

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