| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-254) and index. |
| 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 -- Epilogue : Neither blue laws nor Black laws. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Law -- Virginia -- History.
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Law. |
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Virginia. |
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History. |
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Civil rights -- Virginia -- History.
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Civil rights. |
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Social change -- Virginia -- History.
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Social change. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Law. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wallenstein, Peter. Blue laws and Black codes. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004 0813922607 (DLC) 2003015695 (OCoLC)52706481 |
| ISBN |
9780813924878 (electronic book) |
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0813924871 (electronic book) |
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0813922607 |
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9780813922607 |
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0813922615 |
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9780813922614 |
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