Blue Laws and Black Codes Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia

Name: Blue Laws and Black Codes Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia
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ISBN: 9780813922614

ISBN-10: 0813922615

ISBN-13: 9780813922614

Edition: 2004

Authors: Peter Wallenstein

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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 3/24/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Peter Wallenstein is professor of history at Virginia Tech. He is the author of many books including Cradle of America: A History of Virginia, also from Kansas.



List of Maps and Tables


Preface


Introduction: Amending Virginia, Amending America



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


Notes


Index