Blue laws and Black codes
Subtitle: conflict, courts, and change in twentieth-century Virginia
By: Peter Wallenstein.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Law -- Virginia -- History.; Civil rights -- Virginia -- History.; Social change -- Virginia -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: The case of the laborer from Louisa : conscripts, convicts, and public roads, 1890s-1920s; title: Necessity, charity, and a sabbath : citizens, courts, and Sunday closing laws, 1920s-1980s; title: These new and strange beings : race, sex, and the legal profession, 1870s-1970s; title: The siege against segregation : Black Virginians and the law of civil rights; title: To sit or not to sit : scenes in Richmond from the civil rights movement; title: Racial identity and the crime of marriage : the view from twentieth-century Virginia; title: Power and policy in an American state : federal courts, political rights, and policy outcomes; title: From Harry Byrd to Douglas Wilder : gender, race, and judgeships.