Abstract
In 1971, Creighton Court resident Curtis Holt filed a monumental lawsuit against the city. His suit attacked an increasingly problematic, yet subtle form of institutionalized racism — the dilution of African-Americans’ growing voting power. Richmond had annexed 23 square miles of Chesterfield County a year earlier to head off the city’s growing black electorate and keep City Council predominantly white. Holt’s suit charged that blacks would have won a council majority in 1970 had Richmond not added 47,000 suburbanites, only 3 percent of whom were black.
Document Type
Editorial
Publication Date
7-30-2013
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Copyright © 2013 Style Weekly. This article first appeared in Style Weekly, July 30, 2013.
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Recommended Citation
Hayter, Julian Maxwell. "Voting Blocks." Editorial. Style Weekly, July 30, 2013.