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...
A United Front: The American Relief Administration in Ukraine
Title
A United Front: The American Relief Administration in Ukraine
Author
Hunt, David
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
History, Slavs--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
The United States has been involved in humanitarian assistance missions since the late nineteenth century. However, Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration (ARA) was the first organization that combined the abilities of several smaller org...
Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Title
Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Author
Taylor, Emily
Date Created
2015
Subjects--Topical
History, Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
Centering on the concept of dual identity, my thesis examines how the larger black community in the South adjusted to modernity through acts of masking. More specifically, this work analyzes minstrelsy and jubilee spirituals in an effort to explai...
Nourishing the Movement: Georgia Gilmore’s Club from Nowhere During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
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 ...
The Goldmar Strike: Formative Years of the MCOP, 1977-1979
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...