The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce that Pippa Holloway will be with 
us to discuss and sign _Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920–
1945_, at noon on Thursday, June 28, 2007. Her book explores how the white 
elite who dominated politics in the first half of the 20th century sought to 
increase state control over African Americans and lower-class whites, whom 
they saw as oversexed and lacking sexual self-restraint. In order to reaffirm 
the existing political and social order, these politicians legalized eugenic 
sterilization, increased state efforts to control venereal disease and 
prostitution, cracked down on interracial marriage, and enacted statewide 
movie censorship. The Library is located at 800 East Broad Street in 
downtown Richmond and free parking is available under the building.

We hope to see you here,

Katie Gillespie

Upcoming events:
Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 5:30 PM - Bob Carlin: Birth of the Banjo
FREE EVENT. Reservations required. Call 804-692-3900.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at noon - Elizabeth M. Gushee's Travels through the 
Old South: Frances Benjamin Johnston and the Vernacular Architecture of 
Virginia