An 1870 state law requiring the registration of convicted felons by local
court clerks foretold the many Jim Crow laws that would follow the end of
Reconstruction. Read more about these records in today's Out of the Box
blog:


http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/

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