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Jim Crow Virginia – History

Carroll, F. (2014). The Racial Politics of Place: Jim Crow, the New Deal, and Suburban Housing on the Virginia Peninsula. Journal of Urban History, 40(3), 514-535. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144213516079.

Chiles, M. T. (2021). “A Period of Misunderstanding”: Reforming Jim Crow in Richmond, Virginia, 1930–1954. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 129(3), 244–278. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27041492.

Daily, Jane. Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia. University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Virgo: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3685691 (ebook available).

Daugherity, Brian J., and Brian Grogan, editors. A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia. University of Virginia Press, 2019. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvndv7vw. Accessed 2 Aug. 2024.

Daugherity, Brian J., and Alyce Miller. “‘A New Era in Building’: African American Educational Activism in Goochland County, Virginia, 1911–32.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 128, no. 1, 2020, pp. 44–85. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26878495. Accessed 2 Aug. 2024.

Edds, Margaret. We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow. University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Virgo: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u7314567.

Feller, Laura J., and Project Muse. Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line. University of Oklahoma Press, 2022.

Fenwick, Leslie T. Jim Crow's Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership. Harvard Education Press, 2022.

Harold, Claudrena. New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South. The University of Georgia Press, 2016.
Virgo: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u6898409 (ebook available).

Leidholdt, A. S. (2014). Showdown on Mr. Jefferson’s Lawn: Contesting Jim Crow during the University of Virginia’s Protodesegregation. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 122(3), 230–271. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24394168.

Ligon, Charlene Butts. Fearless: How a Poor Virginia Seamstress Took on Jim Crow, Beat the Poll Tax, and Changed Her City Forever. 1st ed. Smallwood Charlotte Press, 2018.

Palmore, J. R. (1997). The Not-So-Strange Career of Interstate Jim Crow: Race, Transportation, and the Dormant Commerce Clause, 1878-1946. Virginia Law Review, 83(8), 1773–1817. https://doi.org/10.2307/1073658.

Smith, J. Douglas. Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia. University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Virgo: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3907156 (ebook available).

Thorp, Daniel B. Facing Freedom: An African American Community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow. University of Virginia Press, 2017.

Tischauser, Leslie Vincent. Jim Crow Laws. Greenwood, 2012.
Virgo: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u5721084.

Walker, Anders. The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America. Yale University Press, 2018.

Wiegand, Wayne A., and Shirley A. Wiegand. The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism. Louisiana State University Press, 2018.

Jim Crow Virginia – Collections of Laws

“From Virginia’s Law Books,” Interim Report from The Commission to Examine Racial Inequality in Virginia Law, November 15, 2019.

“Identifying and Addressing the Vestiges of Inequity and Inequality in Virginia’s Laws,” Report from the Commission to Examine Racial Inequality in Virginia Law, November 15, 2020.

Guild, June Purcell, Karen Hughes White, and Joan W. Peters. Black Laws of Virginia: A Summary of the Legislative Acts of Virginia Concerning Negroes from Earliest Times to the Present. Willow Bend Books, 1996.
Virgo: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3586602 (ebook available).

Johnson, Franklin. The Development of State Legislation Concerning the Free Negro. Greenwood Press, 1979.
Virgo: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u288970.

Murray, Pauli. States' Laws On Race and Color: And Appendices Containing International Documents, Federal Laws and Regulations, Local Ordinances and Charts. Women's Division of Christian Service, 1950.
Virgo: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3370580.

“Setting a Path for a More Equitable Commonwealth,” A Report from the Commission to Examine Racial Inequality in Virginia Law and the Commission to Examine Racial and Economic Inequality in Virginia Law.

Wilson, Theodore. The Black Codes of the South. University of Alabama Press, 1965.
Virgo: https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3278441.

Jim Crow Virginia – Acts of Assembly 


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1865/1866
1865 Extra Session Extra Session
1866/1867
1867 Extra Session Extra Session
1869/1870
1870/1871
1871/1872
1872/1873
1874
1874/1875
1875/1876
1876/1877
1877/1878
1878/79
1879/80
1879es Extra Session
1881/1882
1882es Extra Session
1883/1884
1884es Extra Session
1885/1886
1887/1888
1887es Extra Session
1889/1890 Private Laws
1889/1890 Public Laws
1891/1892
1893/1894
1895/1896
1897/1898
1899/1900
1901/1902
1901es Extra Session
1902/1903 Extra Session
1902/1904 Extra Session
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