| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-254) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- Virginia -- History
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Civil rights -- Virginia -- History
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Social change -- Virginia -- History
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LAW -- Essays.
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LAW -- General Practice.
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
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LAW -- Practical Guides.
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LAW -- Reference.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
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Civil rights
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Law
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Social change
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Bürgerrecht
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Sozialer Wandel
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Virginia
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Virginia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003015695 |
| ISBN |
9780813924878 |
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0813924871 |
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