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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: 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: CULTURE CLASH AND ADMINISTRATIVE REACTIONS: THE EVOLUTION OF DISSENT AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, 1954-1970
Author: Hoverman, Louanne
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: When historians and writers explore college student protest and dissent in the 1960s, they tend to focus on the students. Historians have written rich histories of campus protests, yet there is little about collegiate administrations, and their ro...

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: The Black College Experience: What Does it Mean to African American Teens? A Descriptive Case Study Investigating Student Perceptions and its Influence on College Choice and HBCU Student Enrollment
Author: Scott, Lakia
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue to represent a great legacy in the history of education for African Americans; however, these institutions are faced with contemporary challenges that include: declining Black enrollmen...

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: 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: “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...

Title: The City of KIngs Mountain: The Historical City with a Misplaced Identity
Author: Barnett, Melissa
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Fought on October 7th, 1780, on a ridgetop in the backcountry of South Carolina, the battle of Kings Mountain turned the tide of the Revolutionary War. A century later, the City of Kings Mountain was founded along the Charlotte-Atlanta Railroad, n...

Title: Woodward, Watson, and White Supremacy: Examining Race in the Histories of Thomas E. Watson, 1899-1912
Author: Tandy, Hannah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History, American literature
Description: This study asked if there was evidence of Thomas E. Watson’s (1856-1922) shifting racial views in the histories he published between 1899 and 1912. Watson is famous for his integrated populist campaigns of the early to mid-1890s, and infamous for ...

Title: Wilmington Student Stories: Violence and Desegregation in the US South, 1968-1971
Author: Johnson, Sydney
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From the end of January into the beginning of February 1971, Black students led a boycott of New Hanover and Hoggard High Schools in Wilmington, North Carolina. These events resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of ten individuals who became...

Title: Popular Purity: Change Over Time in the Racial Views of H.P Lovecraft, and the Spectrum of Racial Ideas as Promoted by Popular Culture: 1917-1936
Author: Nance, Logan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History, Literature
Description: Howard Phillips Lovecraft was a prominent horror author of the 1920s and 1930s, who helped pioneer the cosmic horror genre. Lovecraft’s racism is well known, but most of the literature on Lovecraft is from literary scholars, not historians, and th...