We Still Remember!
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 332
The Racial Integrity Act of 1924 which institutionalized the “one drop rule,” required racial description of every person to be recorded at birth and banned interracial marriages, effectively rendering Native Americans with African ancestry extinct, and these policies have destroyed the ability of many of Virginia’s indigenous people to prove continuous existence in order to gain federal recognition and the benefits such recognition confers
In February 2007, the Virginia legislature unanimously acknowledged “with profound regret the involuntary servitude of Africans and the exploitation of Native Americans, and call[ed] for reconciliation among all Virginians.” [3] The legislative resolution recognized the manifold injuries inflicted upon Native Americans as well as African Americans by the state and, in turn, Virginia accepted responsibility for those harms.
Source: Virginia’s Apology to Native Americans: Steps Toward Reconciliation and Social Healing?by Sarah Wong