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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
- 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
- From Tee to Green: Municipal Planning, Golf, and Mountain Progress
- Author
- Dixon, Kenneth
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History, African Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board ruled the "separate but equal" doctrine, set in place by the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case in 1896, to be unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s "Equal Pro...
- Title
- Genocide Activism: Generational Interpretations within African American and Native American Organizations, 1948-1978
- Author
- Marlowe, Kathryn
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Indigenous peoples
- Description
- This thesis is a comparative analysis of Native American and African American activist strategies from the immediate post-WWII era to the height of the Civil Rights Era using a term I call "genocide activism." Genocide activism is when a group or ...
- Title
- I am not your Negro: What African American male counselor students' perceptions of their racialized gendered identity say to Counseling Education and Supervision programs with respect to a Pan-African Paradigm
- Author
- Feemster, Ryan
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, History
- Description
- ABSTRACTDr. RYAN BENSON FEEMSTER: I am not your Negro: What African American male counselor students' perceptions of their racialized gendered identity say to Counseling Education and Supervision programs with respect to a Pan-African Paradigm (Un...
- 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
- Nourishing the Movement: Georgia Gilmore’s Club from Nowhere During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
- Author
- Marshall, Sylvia
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, History
- Description
- On December 1, 1955, news of the arrest of Rosa Parks swept through the city of Montgomery. Though not the first African American to challenge segregated seating on public transportation, Parks' arrest sparked a carefully organized thirteen-month ...
- Title
- Separate and Unequl: Segregation in North Carolina's Asylum System 1856-1905
- Author
- Westpfahl, Jocelyn
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health, History, African Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- During its 1874-1875 session, the North Carolina General Assembly founded twonew public asylums to address overcrowding in its only mental health care facility inRaleigh (Dorothea Dix Hospital). The first, in Morganton (Broughton Hospital), wasint...
- Title
- The New Orleans Citizens Committee: Unheralded Activists who Challenged Jim Crow in Plessy v. Ferguson
- Author
- Kinny, Paul
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- History, African Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- The Louisiana Separate Car Act of 1890 required that White and African-American passengers ride in separate railcars. Eighteen leaders of the New Orleans Afro-Creole community formed the Citizens Committee for the purpose of initiating a legal cas...
- 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...