Blue Laws and Black Codes
Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia
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Women were once excluded everywhere from the legal profession, but by the 1990s the Virginia Supreme Court had three women among its seven justices. This is just one example of how law in Virginia has been transformed over the past century, as it has across the South and throughout the nation. Peter Wallenstein shows that laws were often changed not through legislative action or constitutional amendment, but by citizens taking cases to state and federal courtrooms, such as the elimination of "blue laws" that required Virginia stores to close on Sundays and the abolition of segregation laws, mo...
Women were once excluded everywhere from the legal profession, but by the 1990s the Virginia Supreme Court had three women among its seven justices. This is just one example of how law in Virginia has been transformed over the past century, as it has across the South and throughout the nation. Peter Wallenstein shows that laws were often changed not through legislative action or constitutional amendment, but by citizens taking cases to state and federal courtrooms, such as the elimination of "blue laws" that required Virginia stores to close on Sundays and the abolition of segregation laws, modified versions of southern states' "black codes."
