Original sentence: Tennessee adopted a one-drop statute in 1910.These were the laws that gave power to bureaucrats like Walter Plecker of Virginia, Naomi Drake of Louisiana, and similar people around the country, who insistent on labeling families of mixed ancestry as Black
Edited sentence: Tennessee led the parade by adopting a one-drop statute in 1910.These were the laws that gave power to bureaucrats like Walter Plecker of Virginia, Naomi Drake of Louisiana, and similar people around the country — people whose mission was to hunt down any families of mixed ancestry and shove them to the Black side of the color line