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Oct 18, 2024 · Racial integrity laws were passed by the General Assembly to protect “whiteness” against what many Virginians perceived to be the negative effects of race-mixing.
Mar 20, 2024 · Not until 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia, did the legal foundations for white supremacy in Virginia crumble.
Former slaves were denied access to decent jobs and commercial services by segregation laws. This system of racial discrimination came to be known as “Jim Crow”––in reference to a stereotypical black character in minstrel shows.
The civil rights movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s was one phase in the longer black freedom struggle that began when the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619—and continues today.
Two young lawyers from the ACLU, Bernard Cohen and Philip Hirschkop, took the case and asked a state trial court to vacate the Lovings’ conviction in 1963. The lawyers argued that the Lovings’ rights were violated in accordance with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The judge delayed addressing the appeal, so Cohen ...
Jun 22, 2020 · The legislature repealed unconstitutional racially discriminatory laws from Virginia’s Acts of Assembly enacted in the Jim Crow era, which codified segregation in schools, public transportation, and public spaces, and created obstacles for people of color to vote.
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Two years later, in the wake of protests and boycotts organized by African Americans in almost every major city in the state, the assembly enacted legislation that required racial segregation on streetcars. Excluded from the whites-only economic system, black Virginians relied on each other.
