Virginia Bill of Rights Archives

“Irrespective of Race or Color”: African Americans and the Making of a New Virginia Constitution

On 17 April 1868, exactly seven years after a Virginia convention had voted to secede from the United States, another Virginia convention voted to approve…

John DealApril 17, 2019

Archives The Stacks

Truckin’ with the Bill of Rights

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in The Delimiter, the Library’s in-house on-line newsletter. It has been slightly edited for clarity. To commemorate the bicentennial of the…

Lyn HartJune 22, 2016

Virginia Bill of Rights

“Irrespective of Race or Color”: African Americans and the Making of a New Virginia Constitution

Truckin’ with the Bill of Rights

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