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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
- 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
- Genocide Activism: Generational Interpretations within African American and Native American Organizations, 1948-1978
- Author
- Marlowe, Kathryn
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Indigenous peoples
- Description
- This thesis is a comparative analysis of Native American and African American activist strategies from the immediate post-WWII era to the height of the Civil Rights Era using a term I call "genocide activism." Genocide activism is when a group or ...
- Title
- Nourishing the Movement: Georgia Gilmore’s Club from Nowhere During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
- Author
- Marshall, Sylvia
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, History
- Description
- On December 1, 1955, news of the arrest of Rosa Parks swept through the city of Montgomery. Though not the first African American to challenge segregated seating on public transportation, Parks' arrest sparked a carefully organized thirteen-month ...
- Title
- The Goldmar Strike: Formative Years of the MCOP, 1977-1979
- Author
- Stroud, Lucinda
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Industrial relations, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- This thesis examines the Maricopa County Organizing Project (MCOP or the Project) which was founded in 1977 in Maricopa County, Arizona. The MCOP is believed to be the first organization to hold an agricultural strike that consisted of entirely un...
- 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...