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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: Charlotte's Airport Enters The Jet Age: Charlotte Douglas, 1954-1983
Author: Ross, Lucas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: ABSTRACTLUCAS CHARLES ROSS. Charlotte’s airport enters the jet age:Charlotte Douglas, 1954-1983. (Under the direction of DR. MARK WILSON) The history of airports is a neglected topic despite the incredible economic and social changes the world has...

Title: City of Racers: The Growth of the NASCAR Industry in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1949-2000
Author: Gable, Bryan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This study explores the development of the NASCAR industry in the city of Charlotte and its surrounding region through the second half of the twentieth century. I argue that NASCAR and Charlotte were seeking the same goals in the late twentieth ce...

Title: RACE, RESEGREGATION AND THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPLELINE IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY
Author: Graham, Joseph
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: This thesis explores the relationship between out of school suspensions and court-involvement for youth in Mecklenburg County. Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the concept of implicit bias serve to inform this examination, interpretation, and analys...

Title: Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
Author: Moore, Kate
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, History
Description: 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...

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: you ain't from around here, are you? a biographical study of harry golden and history of his quest for tolerance and justice in the state of north carolina
Author: Sullivan, Michael
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: In the summer of 1941, a thirty-nine year old ex-convict from New York City, that just months earlier changed his name from Harry Goldhurst to Harry Golden, stepped off a bus at the main terminal in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Although he ...

Title: “HOW COULD LOVE BE WRONG?” GAY ACTIVISM AND AIDS IN CHARLOTTE, 1970-1992
Author: Wright, Christina
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History, Queer studies
Description: ABSTRACTCHRISTINA ANNE WRIGHT. "How could love be wrong?" Gay activism and AIDS in Charlotte, 1970-1992. (Under the direction of DR. CHERYL HICKS) Sustained gay activism in Charlotte, North Carolina, only emerged in response to the HIV AIDS epidem...

Title: “International House, Where Charlotte Welcomes the World:” A Case Study of an Immigrant-Serving Nonprofit in an Emerging Global Gateway City, 1980-2010
Author: Rhinehart, Madison
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The city of Charlotte saw a substantial increase in international diversity beginning in the late 1980s. Since that time, the city developed into what is termed a Global Gateway City, becoming home to a population that is 16.4% foreign-born. Paral...