Blue Laws and Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-century Virginia by Peter Wallenstein
Blue Laws and Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-century Virginia
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Peter Wallenstein
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Blue Laws and Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-century Virginia

Peter Wallenstein

280 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions)

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Particularly notable was the abolition of segregation laws, modified versions of southern states’ "black codes" dating back to the era of slavery and the first years after emancipation. Virginia’s long road to racial equality under the law includ...

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