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xi, 270 p. 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. Peter Wallenstein. Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-254) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n-us-va Law Virginia History Civil rights Virginia History Social change Virginia History KFV2478 .W35 2004eb 340/.115/09755 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10660858 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10660858 CaPaEBR 030716 ebr10660858