Blue laws and Black codes : conflict, courts, and change in twentieth-century Virginia / Peter Wallenstein.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wallenstein, Peter
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Law > Virginia > History.
Civil rights > Virginia > History.
Social change > Virginia > History.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xi, 270 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.