Race in Virginia

Race and Virginia

Virginia's current population mix is dramatically different from that in 1600, or 1800. Some of the population changes reflect voluntary immigration, but the forced transport of slaves from Africa must be acknowledged as a factor as well.

Slavery in Virginia

The "One-Drop" Rule

Loving v. Virginia

Massive Resistance

Melungeons in Virginia

Elected Officials - We're Not Finished With "Firsts"

Links

African American Heritage in Virginia
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
Brookings Institution: The "Segregation Tax": The Cost of Racial Segregation to Black Homeowners
California Department of Insurance - Slavery Era Insurance Registry
Civil Rights in US & Virginia History (HIST604 at University of Virginia)
"Copacetic" - the Richmond connection
Cross Burning (outlawed in Virginia in 1952)
- Virginia high court strikes down cross-burning law (November 5, 2001)
- Kilgore Asks High Court to Hear Case -- Defends Law Banning Cross Burning for Intimidation (January 25, 2002)
- Supreme Court Hears Cross Burning Case (December 16, 2002)
Delaware's Invisible Indians by Ned Heite (see especially the paragraphs on Northampton County, Virginia)
History News Network: Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Irene Morgan (11 years before Rosa Parks and the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, she refused to move - and as a result, the Supreme Court ruled segregation on interstate buses was illegal)
New Perspectives Offered at Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Washington, D.C.
Maps of African American and White Populations in 100 Metro Areas (from the University of Wisconsin - Employment and Training Institute)
- Norfolk--Virginia Beach--Newport News, VA--NC MSA
- Richmond--Petersburg, VA MSA
- Washington, DC--MD--VA--WV PMSA
Race and Place - An African American Community in the Jim Crow South: Charlottesville, VA
Secretary Norton Designates 15 Sites in 11 States as National Historic Landmarks (including New Kent School and George W. Watkins School in New Kent County), August 27, 2001 news release from the Department of the Interior:
This And That: Genealogy Tips On African-American Genealogy
VA Pathways (see Study Guide for teachers)
- Civil Rights: Part 1
- Civil Rights: Part 2
Virginia Black History Archives (from Virginia Commonwealth University)
Virginia Runaways
Without Sanctuary (images of lynchings)
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1820-1940
- How Did Black and White Southern Women Campaign to End Lynching, 1890-1942?
- The Lynching of Negroes--Its Cause and Its Prevention by Thomas Nelson Page in 1904

Population of Virginia
Geography of Virginia