Terry,

Cox and Powell consulted with Leon Bazile, who was then an Assistant
Attorney General of Virginia, regarding appealing the Sorrels case. Bazile
advised against it due to the chance of creating an adverse precedent.
Better to tighten the race law in the coming General Assembly session,
Bazile thought. By the late 1950s and early '60s, Bazile, as a circuit
judge, gained a page of infamy in constitutional history for his opinion in
the case of Richard and Mildred Loving (1965). Bazile, I found, turns up in
every Virginia race controversy from the 1924 Act through the Loving
case--over four decades of fighting for white supremacy and segregation.

Jim

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:23 AM Meyers, Terry L <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> My recent work on W&M’s Anglo-Saxon Club and the other Clubs’ role in
> promoting the 1924 Racial Integrity Act mentions this case (and another);
> the Clubs considered appealing the Sorrels case.   Scroll about 3/4 down at:
>
>
> https://www.wm.edu/sites/lemonproject/researchandresources/resourcesandresearch/index.php
>
> I was particularly struck by the involvement of a white supremacist, John
> Powell, a PBK graduate of UVA and an accomplished musician and composer who
> managed to embed his racism in his music.  See, for example, his “Banjo
> Picker”:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwkG8p0UHs4
>
>
>
> of the Box uses one Rockbridge County court case to offer some context.
>
>
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