Search results

  • CSV Spreadsheet
  • RSS Feed
(1 - 5 of 5)
"Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
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...
Dr. Madge Baker Gaskin: The Making of a Woman Physician in the 1920s
Title
Dr. Madge Baker Gaskin: The Making of a Woman Physician in the 1920s
Author
Gaskin, Rachael
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Women's studies, History
Description
During the 1920s, women who aspired to be doctors often found the South unwelcoming. Women interested in the medical profession, encountered multiple roadblocks when they applied to medical school programs because of sexist stereotypes and cultura...
The effects of urban renewal on African Americans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the case of the Brooklyn neighborhood: 1960-1974.
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...
“Our Children’s Children Live Forever”: The Educational Activism of The Sawyer-Flowers-Wilson Family in America From 1866 To 1986
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...
“THAT MUCH-MALIGNED MONSTER – NEW MATH:” AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHER PREPAREDNESS AND TRAINING IN THE ERA OF NEW MATH, 1950 TO 1975
Title
“THAT MUCH-MALIGNED MONSTER – NEW MATH:” AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHER PREPAREDNESS AND TRAINING IN THE ERA OF NEW MATH, 1950 TO 1975
Author
Howell, Randi
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, History
Description
Education reform is a continuous cycle. The cyclical nature of American mathematics education reform began in the 1950s, during the height of the Cold War. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the American government felt education, specifical...