Blue laws and Black codes : conflict, courts, and change in twentieth-century Virginia / Peter Wallenstein.
| Author/creator |
Wallenstein, Peter |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, |
| Description | xi, 270 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-254) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2003015695 |
| ISBN | 0813922607 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813922615 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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