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EBONY IN EXILE: AN EXAMINATION OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK AMERICA AND THE CUBAN INFLUENCE 1960s-1980s
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Author
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Willard, Joseph
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Area studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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From Tee to Green: Municipal Planning, Golf, and Mountain Progress
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Author
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Dixon, Kenneth
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History, African Americans--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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Memories of Mont Amoena: "An Island of Culture in Difficult Years," 1859-1927
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Author
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McLain, Denise
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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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...
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Rebellious and Reserved: The Fluidity of African American Slave Masculinity
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Author
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McManimen, Rachel
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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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...
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THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION IN EL PASO, TEXAS, 1910-1929
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Author
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Battista, Nancy
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, Sex, History
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Description
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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 ...
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Wilmington Student Stories: Violence and Desegregation in the US South, 1968-1971
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Author
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Johnson, Sydney
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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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...
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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...