Not quite back to "Lucy" of East Africa fame, but pretty far back.

Paul Finkelman

Henry Wiencek wrote:
> In May 1992 the Charlottesville "Daily Progress" carried an article about
> a recently deceased UVA professor whose will, it was revealed, stipulated
> that his heirs would be disinherited if he/she married a person who was
> more than 1/120 black.  I don't know how many generations you'd have to go
> back to ascertain that, and I don't know if his heirs had to provide such
> documentation.
>
> Henry Wiencek
> Charlottesville
>
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