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"Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
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Author
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Ervin, Michael
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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ADVERTISING THE OLD NORTH STATE: 1945-1955
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Author
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Barnes, Emma
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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The Division of State Advertising was created during the midst of the Great Depression to help bring revenue into North Carolina. During the 1940s, the Division expanded, creating and publishing pamphlets, brochures and articles appealing to touri...
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NORTH CAROLINA PROTESTANT THEOLOGIANS AND THE IDEA OF DEATH DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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Author
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Baisley, Richard
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, History
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Description
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The Civil War challenged almost every aspect of life for Confederate North Carolinians. Daily necessities became impossible to find or were outrageously priced, roles within households changed, and Americans died in record numbers. This work revea...
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Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
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Author
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Moore, Kate
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, History
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Description
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An anonymous author in 1837 lamented that "if the world were just" the term Old Maid, instead of a pejorative, would "be a synonyme(sp) of useful virtue." While scholars have examined the domestic and beneficent contributions of single women, this...
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The Champions of Popular Rights: North Carolina’s Political Reformation, 1850-1862
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Author
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Holt, Bradley
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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In the decade before the American Civil War, North Carolina voters embarked on a path to remake state politics and government in a manner beneficial to the non-plantation owning class of white men. Politically educated and mobilized through newspa...
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“Live by the Spirit:” Institutional Discipline for Crimes Against Order and Morals, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1767 - 1839
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Author
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Carpenter, Layne
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, Law, History
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Description
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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina was located in the Carolina backcountry—an area frequently viewed as immoral, disorganized, and barbaric by contemporaries. However, this study demonstrates that institutions of authority—both legal and ecclesias...
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“WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE”: NORTH CAROLINA’S FORGOTTEN BLACK CODE
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Author
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Warlick, Tommy
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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JOHN THOMAS WARLICK, IV. "What’s Past is Prologue": North Carolina’s Forgotten Black Code. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DAVID SMITH) Between late 1865 and early 1867, after the South’s failure to preserve slavery through armed conflict, lawmak...