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Title: An Intergenerational Oral History of African American Students in Edgecombe County, North Carolina from 1930-1980
Author: Mungo, Sequoya
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The literature about the history of African American education must continue to move beyond deficit-centered research and further explore the varied perceptions and experiences of African Americans from their perspectives. Traditional research oft...

Title: EBONY IN EXILE: AN EXAMINATION OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK AMERICA AND THE CUBAN INFLUENCE 1960s-1980s
Author: Willard, Joseph
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: ABSTRACTJOSEPH WILLARD. Ebony in Exile: An Examination of RevolutionaryBlack America and the Cuban Influence 1960s-1980s.(Under the Direction of DR. JURGEN BUCHENAU)In the 1960s Black America began to embrace an ideology of revolution shifting the...

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: Memories of Mont Amoena: "An Island of Culture in Difficult Years," 1859-1927
Author: McLain, Denise
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: In 1851, the North Carolina Lutheran Synod (NCLS) selected the small, remote village of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina as its center for secondary education. Mount Pleasant Female Academy’s future was uncertain, at best, when it opened as a finish...

Title: Rebellious and Reserved: The Fluidity of African American Slave Masculinity
Author: McManimen, Rachel
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Enslaved men, marginalized by their race and class, sought to reclaim their masculinity and fashion a gendered identity within the slave community. Most commonly examined by historians, ex-slaves acted violently, physically engaging either their m...

Title: TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES CONTENT TO STUDENTS WITH AUTISM USING A GRAPHIC ORGANIZER INTERVENTION
Author: Zakas, Tracie
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) emphasizes the teaching of social studies to provide students with information, critical thinking skills, and experiences to allow them to grow into responsible and effective citizens. In the past...

Title: THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION IN EL PASO, TEXAS, 1910-1929
Author: Battista, Nancy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Sex, History
Description: Turn of the century El Paso had it all: wealth, poverty, and an infamous red-light district. After the city shuttered the vice district in 1917, many of El Paso’s men and women continued to champion regulated prostitution to curtail streetwalkers ...

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: ‘Worked for the Sheer Love of It’: Women’s Belonging and Adversity in the Black Mountain College Art Department, 1941-1954.
Author: Oliver, Brigitte
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Art--Study and teaching, History
Description: In 1941 and 1944, two women arrived as art students at the progressive and experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. There, under the college’s mission, experienced a progressive education model influenced by John Dewey. As they moved...

Title: “WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE”: NORTH CAROLINA’S FORGOTTEN BLACK CODE
Author: Warlick, Tommy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: 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...