Seems I've heard something on tv news about someone in VA, perhaps
Chesterfield, refusing to sell his property to an African-American woman
because he has a clause as such in his deed.
Apparently, history is not complete on this issue.
Anne
At 04:27 PM 5/3/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Mr. Boggs,
>
>The subject of residential segregation statutes should be covered, I
>expect, in June Purcell Guild's Black Laws of Virginia (orig. 1935, but
>reprinted in 1969 and more recently).
>
>The NAACP successfully challenged a residential segregation statute from
>Louisville, Kentucky, before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1917, but various
>southern cities, including Norfolk, Richmond, and Roanoke tried
>(ultimately unsucessfully) during the 1920s to craft residential
>segregation laws that would be consitutional.
>
>There is a discussion of the Norfolk ordinance in Earl Lewis's In Their
>Own Interests, about blacks in Norfolk, and in J. Douglas Smith's Managing
>White Supremacy: Race, Politics and Citizenship in Jom Crow Virginia,
>among other relevant topics.
>
>Maybe there is enough left unexamined here, though, for a good research
>project.
>
>John
>
>-------Original Message-------
>From: Jeremy Boggs <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: 05/02/03 09:06 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: urban segregation in Virginia, 1912
>
> >
> > Jack Kirby, in his Darkness at the Dawning: Race and Reform in the
>Progressive South, discusses briefly a "statewide formula for urban
>segregation"
>enacted by the Virginia General Assembly in 1912 (24). Does anyone have
>information about the "formula" Kirby is talking about? Also, he mentioned
>that several cities drew "racial maps" to mark racial boundaries within the
>respective city's limits. Does anyone know if/where I can find these maps
>(perhaps in the library of Virginia), and if anyone has written specifically
>on this issue. Thanks in advance for any help offered.
>
>Best,
>Jeremy Boggs
>
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