We look at Civil War memory, white and black, in our Jim Crow Virginia part four. We begin with looking at how differences emerged in shared memories using “Race and Reunion”, “Cities of the Dead” and “Southern Past”. How women in associations and in their published writing of memoirs, novels and histories established the Lost...
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In our Jim Crow Virginia part three we look at Social Life and Social Control in Virginia, beginning with “Avenues of Faith” describing church adaptations to the challenges of modernization. We then turn to the Progressive Era’s efforts at social control in the private spheres of life with “Sexuality, Politics and Social Control in Virginia”,...
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Part two of our Jim Crow Virginia 1900-1945 begins with “Blue Laws and Black Codes” that focuses on Virginia law as a link between social and racial conflict and change. “Making Whiteness” discusses the culture of segregation imposed after racial progress in Reconstruction. “Separate and Unequal” discusses the connection between public school campaigns and racism...
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We begin our look at Jim Crow New South Virginia 1900-1945 with “Struggle for Mastery” investigating the disenfranchisement of the African American. “Managing White Supremacy” shows the role of Anglo Saxon Clubs and the redefinition of one-drop racism. “Harry Byrd” explains the forty-year dominance of the Democratic Organization under one man, while “Norfolk” surveys the...
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