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"Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
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Author
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Ervin, Michael
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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BASEBALL FROM BELOW: HOW AMERICA’S PASTIME BECAME A HEMISPHERIC CULTURAL PHENOMENON
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Author
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Gallemore, Michael
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Area studies, History
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Description
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The game of baseball has rarely changed since its beginnings, and its resultant ascent to the United States national pastime has done little to change the fundamentals of the sport. However, there have been significant shifts in the demographics o...
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Battle of the Press: The Nullification Crisis in South Carolina, 1828-1833
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Author
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Pack, Andrew
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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This study focuses on the role of the press during the Nullification Crisis in SouthCarolina. It examines how the Charleston Mercury and the Charleston Courier usedideas centered around economics, states’ rights and honor to convince South Carolin...
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Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
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Author
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Taylor, Emily
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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That Southern Spirit: A Novel for Middle-Grade Readers
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Author
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Riley, Susan
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing, American literature, History
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Description
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When thirteen-year-old Delta Wells arrives on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to visit her grandparents, she anticipates the usual peaceful summer of seaside fun. When she learns that Pops’ beloved Island History Museum will likely be replaced ...
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The Representation of Guatemala at the World’s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Author
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Almengor, Candie
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Area studies, History
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Description
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The Representation of Guatemala at the World’s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century is a case study among many Latin American countries’ desire to display modernity in an attempt to rid of any uncivilized notoriety. This thesis juxtaposes Guatemal...
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“Live by the Spirit:” Institutional Discipline for Crimes Against Order and Morals, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1767 - 1839
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Author
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Carpenter, Layne
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, Law, History
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Description
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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina was located in the Carolina backcountry—an area frequently viewed as immoral, disorganized, and barbaric by contemporaries. However, this study demonstrates that institutions of authority—both legal and ecclesias...