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  2. Racial Integrity Act of 1924 - Wikipedia

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    Plecker described Virginia's racial purity laws and requested to be put on Gross' mailing list. Plecker commented upon the Third Reich's sterilization of 600 children in the Rhineland (the so-called Rhineland Bastards , who were born of German women by black French colonial fathers): "I hope this work is complete and not one has been missed.

  3. Naming in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The name became popular again in the 1960s, as the comedy television show Bewitched had a lead character named Samantha. Prior to the 1984 movie Splash, Madison was almost solely heard as a surname, with occasional usage as a masculine name. The name entered the top 1000 list for girls in 1985 and has been a top 10 name since 1997. [2]

  4. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...

  5. Maiden and married names - Wikipedia

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    When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted upon marriage.

  6. Virginia reshaped as Democrats put historic stamp on laws - AOL

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    Democratic legislators in Virginia have dramatically reshaped the state in two months, sweeping aside many of the state’s old business-friendly and socially conservative laws and replacing them ...

  7. Restored Government of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Restored (or Reorganized) Government of Virginia was the Unionist government of Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865) in opposition to the government which had approved Virginia's seceding from the United States and joining the new Confederate States of America. Each state government regarded the other as illegitimate.

  8. VP-Elect Kamala Harris Kept Her Last Name. Here's Why ... - AOL

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    The working mom is an emblem of the 21st century. Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris didn’t change her last name after marrying her husband Douglas Emhoff, and it's kind of a big deal.

  9. Miami’s judicial race story lines: Name change controversy, a ...

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    Cervera insists that she changed her maiden name in 2014, after marrying attorney Adam Cervera — although she admits she always used her maiden name with the Florida Bar.