Cagney,
I know he does hold personal responsibility, as he was on his own mission.

Anita


>From: cagney <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history         
>      <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: SLAVE OWNERSHIP BY NATIVE AMERICANS IN VIRGINIA
>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:21:41 -0600
>
>My grandmother and her family were part-Indian (her grandmother was 
>full-blooded), and living in Campbell County during the early 1900s.  They 
>are listed as "Mulatto" on the 1920 and 1930 census, and "Negro" in the 
>1930 census (the family members I could find on the census, anyway).  In 
>addition, many of my Mom's cousins have discovered that they were listed as 
>either "Colored" or "Negro" on their birth records.
>
>Dr. Walker A. Plecker was the first registrar of Virginia's Bureau of Vital 
>Statistics (1912-1945). He may have been acting under the authority of the 
>Virginia government, but that does not erase the fact that, at the very 
>least, he was an extremely misguided man.  He corresponded with Joseph 
>Goebbels of Nazi Germany about his handling of the "Jewish problem", and 
>was known to have ordered the sterilization of many Virginia Indians and 
>African-Americans.  The aforementioned book, "Indian Island of Amherst 
>County," is a very good source on this evil man.
>
>I may be calling Plecker evil because of my own personal prejudice, but he 
>is responsible for damaging thousands of lives.  Thank goodness men like 
>him are gone!
>
>Jean Spradlin-Miller
>

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