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Title: "Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
Author: Ervin, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Description: In July 1960, Charlotte’s Park and Recreation Commission enacted an official policy of desegregation in the city’s parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and recreation centers. This development, which resulted in the first integrated municipal swimm...

Title: "Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
Author: Ervin, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Description: In July 1960, Charlotte’s Park and Recreation Commission enacted an official policy of desegregation in the city’s parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and recreation centers. This development, which resulted in the first integrated municipal swimm...

Title: "Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
Author: Ervin, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: In July 1960, Charlotte’s Park and Recreation Commission enacted an official policy of desegregation in the city’s parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and recreation centers. This development, which resulted in the first integrated municipal swimm...

Title: Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Author: Taylor, Emily
Date Created: 2015
Description: Centering on the concept of dual identity, my thesis examines how the larger black community in the South adjusted to modernity through acts of masking. More specifically, this work analyzes minstrelsy and jubilee spirituals in an effort to explai...

Title: Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Author: Taylor, Emily
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Centering on the concept of dual identity, my thesis examines how the larger black community in the South adjusted to modernity through acts of masking. More specifically, this work analyzes minstrelsy and jubilee spirituals in an effort to explai...

Title: PERSECUTION AND PERSEVERANCE: BLACK-WHITE INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN PIEDMONT, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Moore, Casey
Date Created: 2017
Description: Although black-white interracial marriage has been legal across the United States since 1967, its rate of growth has historically been slow, accounting for less than eight percent of all interracial marriages in the country by 2010. This slow rate...

Title: PERSECUTION AND PERSEVERANCE: BLACK-WHITE INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN PIEDMONT, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Moore, Casey
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Although black-white interracial marriage has been legal across the United States since 1967, its rate of growth has historically been slow, accounting for less than eight percent of all interracial marriages in the country by 2010. This slow rate...

Title: The effects of urban renewal on African Americans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the case of the Brooklyn neighborhood: 1960-1974.
Author: Hijazi, Khalid
Date Created: 2014
Description: The federal urban renewal program, which was created as part of the Housing Act of 1949, was designed to provide cities with money to rehabilitate their infrastructure by replacing old decaying buildings and blighted inner city areas. Almost in ev...

Title: The effects of urban renewal on African Americans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the case of the Brooklyn neighborhood: 1960-1974.
Author: Hijazi, Khalid
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The federal urban renewal program, which was created as part of the Housing Act of 1949, was designed to provide cities with money to rehabilitate their infrastructure by replacing old decaying buildings and blighted inner city areas. Almost in ev...

Title: “Our Children’s Children Live Forever”: The Educational Activism of The Sawyer-Flowers-Wilson Family in America From 1866 To 1986
Author: Thomas, Christina
Date Created: 2017
Description: Since slavery, Southern states prohibited the education of Black Americans. Post-emancipation, the first actions of these newly emancipated Black men and women involved the opening of informal and formal schools. The self-determination of Black Am...

Title: “Our Children’s Children Live Forever”: The Educational Activism of The Sawyer-Flowers-Wilson Family in America From 1866 To 1986
Author: Thomas, Christina
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Since slavery, Southern states prohibited the education of Black Americans. Post-emancipation, the first actions of these newly emancipated Black men and women involved the opening of informal and formal schools. The self-determination of Black Am...