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Though I don't have the time to do original research, I tweaked this article after chatting with a few people last 2 months who mentioned Bocock specifically as important in establishing the Black Codes and disenfranchising African American voters. Those comments may explain why the material I added yesterday is in large type in front of the entryway. However, Bocock doesn't figure in either of the two good recent books I consulted in our local library's Virginia history room (Wallenstein's Blue Laws and Black Codes published by U Va in 2004 or Heinemann, Kolp, Parent and Shade's Old Dominion, New Commonwealth which U Va. published in 2007 and may be a common Virginia history textbook).
I changed the middle name because I trust the Library of Virginia's diligence, and noticed that the article on geneology.com which use Salem as his middle name appears very similar to that of the bioguide.congress.com which uses Stanley as his middle name. A recent book (2014) whose excerpt I found through google and to which I added a ref, mentions that no biography of him was written and also gives Bocock's middle name as Stanley. Since I noticed that the author's name is given as both Wakelyn and Vakelyn in the same entry, I discounted the carefulness of the research.Jweaver28 (talk) 19:02, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
