Blue laws and Black codes

by Wallenstein, Peter.
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Published by : University of Virginia Press, (Charlottesville :) Physical details: xi, 270 p. Year: 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-254) 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.

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