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for "Race relations"
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21753
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This article examines the efforts in Wilson County between 1941 and 1953 by educational activists who fought for equal educational opportunities for African-American students. The article discusses the poor conditions forced upon students and the role of the NAACP and activist Mark Sharpe has in improving those conditions.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 88 Issue 1, Jan 2011,
p1-39 , il, por, f
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149
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NC STAR is a program designed to urge elementary and high school students to act as agents for social change, especially in the arena of race relations.
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28005
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Filmmaker and journalist Cash Michaels, wrote, directed, and produced Obama in NC: The Path to History. Michael’s documentary is about North Carolina’s racial issues from Reconstruction through the election of Barack Obama. Michaels shares his thoughts on the anti-diversity stance by the Wake County Schools Board of Education, President Obama, and issues of race in North Carolina.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 34, August 2010,
p16-19
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27869
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A recent press conference held by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP expresses the feelings of many in the community. The issue of falling test scores for low-income and minority students and the lack of minorities enrolled in honors courses were the subject of the press conference. Scores were initially rising until new standards were implemented over the past five years. A change in mindset and new leadership is needed to reduce the gap according to some observers.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 9, March 2010,
p5, 9
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41245
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Reconsidering the American South entailed examining how its culture continues to be shaped by the perception of Southerners. The author revealed that symbols like the Confederate flag, social issues such as race, and controversial figures like Josephus Daniels have positively and negatively impacted how Southerners continue to be viewed and view themselves.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 94 Issue 4, October 2017,
p431-438
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21781
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This article examines the study by economist Robinson Newcomb on African-American business enterprises in the U.S. South in the 1920s. Newcomb's study met with resistance from white academics and civic leaders. His work at the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina is also discussed.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 86 Issue 4, Oct 2009,
p373-403 , il, por, f
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31989
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Citizens of all races are coming together in the Scotts Community in northwest Iredell County. The Scotts Community Development Club, an African American group sponsored by the county extension office, and the Scotts Extension Homemakers Club, a group of white homemakers, combined forces to form a third organization called Scotts Recreation Center, Inc. The center is now providing a more than adequate facility for fun, recreation, cook-outs and neighborly get-togethers.
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21664
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This article examines the often violent relationship between slaves and poor whites in the antebellum Carolinas. In poor white communities, the ideal of honor was very important to a man's standing in the community. When a poor white man was not respected in his community, he still demanded respect in the black community, often using force to achieve it.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 2, Apr 2004,
p139-167 , il, f
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1289
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Last week Durham played host to the Creating Change Conference, the country's largest gay political gathering, whose attendants urged the gay movement to link itself to the struggle of other minority groups.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 11 Issue 46, Nov 1993,
p10, por
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21564
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The article examines the history of the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen (FSC), an interdenominational, reformist organization from its founded in 1934 to its transformation into the Committee of Southern Churchmen in 1963. During its short history, the FSC acted as an outlet for Christian people to work towards a better South where race was not an issue as it helped start an era of change in southern race relations.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 2, Apr 1992,
p179-199 , il, por, f
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21953
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In this article by Mrs. T.J. Jarvis, wife of North Carolina governor Thomas J. Jarvis, she describes the Ku Klux Klan's rise in the South after the Civil War, responding to social and cultural changes occurring at the time.
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21782
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This article examines the Blue Ridge YMCA conference center near the town of Black Mountain and its attempts to better race relations in the U.S. South. The 1906 founding of the center by Willis Duke Weatherford is also discussed, as it was one of the only social institutions in the South where racial issues were openly discussed.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 86 Issue 4, Oct 2009,
p404-436 , il, por, f
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24898
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An examination of the life of an average citizen living in Charlotte in 1968 provides a view of the history of race relations, from the desegregation lunch counters to the still-present dangers for African Americans today.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 18 Issue 9, September 2013,
p64-71, il, por
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34683
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Born in Germany to a North Carolina-native mother, Michael Gotting grew up with his adopted German, white family. He has ties to North Carolina, Berlin, and now Canada. Having roots in all of these places has helped him develop themes for his writing, specifically racism and music.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 26 Issue , 2017,
p34-47, il, por, f
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22707
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On a journey from Mobile, Alabama to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the schooner HARRY A. BERWIND experienced gunfire on the morning of October 10, 1905. A black sailor was said to have murdered all the white crew and ordered surviving crew to sail to Cape Fear. Although the story is mentioned infrequently it provides important information on life at sea and relationships between races, particularly with federal court handling of cases involving black and foreign nationals, at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 91 Issue 1, January 2014,
p1-29, il, por, map, f
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