WALTER PLECKERS LETTER To  local  Registrars,Physicians,Health Officers,Nurses,School Superintendents, and Clerks of Court Letting them know what would happen to them if they  put anything other than Colored on any documents for  the names on his hit list of so called  (Indians)

A  MOTHER'S  PLEA

Written and Requoted by Peter Haddin of the Times-Dispatch Washington Correspondent Nov. 26,2000 The mother of a 16 year old housed at a Lynchburg asylum pleaded with Virginia's governor shortly before Christmas 1926 to intervene and prevent her daughter's sterilization by the state. I am a poor broken hearted mother asking you for a favor of my daughter, The Pocahontas, VA. woman wrote in pencil to Gov. Harry F. Byrd. They claim they have to sterlyize her before she can come home my daughter is to young The poor mother had little chance. When the despairing mother from Pocahontas,VA. made her ples to Gov. Harry Byrd, she enclosed a lucid, handwritten letter by her teen-age daughter to & He quot;s, this girl wasn't at all feebleminded. Moma, I declare I do wish I could come home. I do hate to be sterlized but it is the  only way to come home. I absulitily would be willing for them to cut my head off if I could only come home. She dreamed of going home for Christmas, of presents and siblings and the parents whom she missed. There was a frightened side to her letter. If I don't see you any more in this world I hope to meet you all in another one hope God will help all of you and be with us. After writing seven X's for kisses, the girl added this postscript: Locks and keys may part us and we are far apart but your name in golden letters still linger around my HEART.

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