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
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Subject: urban segregation in Virginia, 1912
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> 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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