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

Contents

List of Maps and Tables viii Preface ix Introduction: Amending Virginia, Amending America 1 1 The Case of the Laborer from Louisa: Conscripts, Convicts, and Public Roads, 1890s–1920s 15 2 Necessity, Charity, and a Sabbath: Citizens, Courts, and Sunday Closing Laws, 1920s–1980s 36 3 These New and Strange Beings: Race, Sex, and the Legal Profession, 1870s–1970s 60 4 The Siege against Segregation: Black Virginians and the Law of Civil Rights 82 5 To Sit or Not to Sit: Scenes in Richmond from the Civil Rights Movement 114 6 Racial Identity and the Crime of Marriage: The View from Twentieth-Century Virginia 142 7 Power and Policy in an American State: Federal Courts, Political Rights, and Policy Outcomes 170 8 From Harry Byrd to Douglas Wilder: Gender, Race, and Judgeships 198 Epilogue: Neither Blue Laws nor Black Laws 210 Notes 217 Index 255 Contents ...