Ms. Peters,

A number of Virginia cities adopted racial resident laws in the period
from around 1907 until  they were declared unconstitutional in the 1917
Supreme Court case of Buchanan v. Warley. Ashland, Lynchburg and other
towns and cities had adopted such ordinances. It was really the
application of the apartheid, racial separation, policy in Virginia and
other southern states. I'm not surprised that you found it in
Charlottesville.

All Best,
Jim Hershman

Margaret Peters wrote:

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>I am currently working on a project involving the Fifeville-Castle Hill neighborhood in the City of Charlottesville.  In my research, we have discovered a 1912 Charlottesville ordinance that directed neighborhood segregation.  This was not an ordinance directing segregation in a planned development where separation of races was part of the covenant but a specific City ordinance prohibiting the two races to live side by side anywhere in the City.  The ordinance passed by the Council was vetoed by the Mayor and his veto was subsequently over-ridden.  I would like to know if anyone is aware of similar ordinances or official City laws that mandated segregation in other Virginia cities in this time period.  I know that there was de-facto segregation, but during the first decade of the 20th century there were always a number of mixed neighborhoods (certainly in Richmond's Jackson Ward).
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>Thanks for any information that you all might have.
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>Margaret Peters
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