Blue laws and Black codes conflict, courts, and change in twentieth-century Virginia /
Wallenstein, Peter.
Blue laws and Black codes conflict, courts, and change in twentieth-century Virginia / Peter Wallenstein. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2004. - 1 online resource (xi, 270 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The case of the laborer from Louisa : conscripts, convicts, and public roads, 1890s-1920s -- Necessity, charity, and a sabbath : citizens, courts, and Sunday closing laws, 1920s-1980s -- These new and strange beings : race, sex, and the legal profession, 1870s-1970s -- The siege against segregation : Black Virginians and the law of civil rights -- To sit or not to sit : scenes in Richmond from the civil rights movement -- Racial identity and the crime of marriage : the view from twentieth-century Virginia -- Power and policy in an American state : federal courts, political rights, and policy outcomes -- From Harry Byrd to Douglas Wilder : gender, race, and judgeships -- Epilogue : Neither blue laws nor Black laws.
9780813924878
Law--History.--Virginia
Civil rights--History.--Virginia
Social change--History.--Virginia
Electronic Books.
KFV2478 / .B584 2004
Blue laws and Black codes conflict, courts, and change in twentieth-century Virginia / Peter Wallenstein. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2004. - 1 online resource (xi, 270 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The case of the laborer from Louisa : conscripts, convicts, and public roads, 1890s-1920s -- Necessity, charity, and a sabbath : citizens, courts, and Sunday closing laws, 1920s-1980s -- These new and strange beings : race, sex, and the legal profession, 1870s-1970s -- The siege against segregation : Black Virginians and the law of civil rights -- To sit or not to sit : scenes in Richmond from the civil rights movement -- Racial identity and the crime of marriage : the view from twentieth-century Virginia -- Power and policy in an American state : federal courts, political rights, and policy outcomes -- From Harry Byrd to Douglas Wilder : gender, race, and judgeships -- Epilogue : Neither blue laws nor Black laws.
9780813924878
Law--History.--Virginia
Civil rights--History.--Virginia
Social change--History.--Virginia
Electronic Books.
KFV2478 / .B584 2004