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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Greensboro"”.
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Participatory budgeting's contributions to environmental justice : evaluating Green Projects funded through Greensboro PB
… defined. This professional report analyzes PB in Greensboro, North Carolina (Greensboro PB) and uses an environmental justice (EJ) framework to evaluate whether PB’s benefits are equitably distributed and whether PB is contributing to EJ goals. Findings from Greensboro PB indicate that winning PB …
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The development of a service-learning curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
<p>The purposes of this study were to (a) successfully create a required service component in an undergraduate course that specifically addresses service learning and (b) develop recommendations for implementation of community service experiences in an existing academic department curriculum. …
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“The Price of a Woolworth’s Burger:” The Importance and Overshadowing of the Nashville Sit-Ins
… which also examines the protests in Wichita and Greensboro. Historians argue that the Wichita and Greensboro sit-ins were the most important demonstrations of their kind. The movement in Wichita was the first protest to end segregation policies at targeted stores, and the Greensboro protests led …
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Driving equitable demand : early lessons from the BetterBuildings Program to access 'hard-to-reach' communities for energy efficiency building improvements
… follow-up interviews, and a case study of Greensboro, North Carolina's program. The survey and interviews indicate that incorporating hard-to-reach households into large-scale pilot projects may enhance efforts to transform energy efficiency markets. Grantees are using financing and grant …
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… was a pioneering African-American attorney from Greensboro, North Carolina. Coming of age during the Jim Crow period of the South, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a teacher and grew up comfortably as a part of the black middle class. The descendant of two white grandparents, her …
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… was a pioneering African-American attorney from Greensboro, North Carolina. Coming of age during the Jim Crow period of the South, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a teacher and grew up comfortably as a part of the black middle class. The descendant of two white grandparents, her …
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Truth and reconciliation at the grassroots : community truth processes in the Southern United States
… United States in the past few years: The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Greensboro, North Carolina, which sought to establish a community reconciliation process 25 years after what has come to be known as the "Greensboro Massacre"; and two civil-society based truth …
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Spelmanite Soldiers
<p>Inspired by the Greensboro sit-ins in 1960, students from Atlanta colleges followed suit and assembled a civil rights movement to combat the legalized segregation in the city of Atlanta. “Spelmanite Soldiers” tells the story of the brave women behind the movement that meticulously organized …
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"Our Generation Had Nothing to Do with Discrimination": White Southern Memory of Jim Crow and Civil Rights
… white southerners ? lifetime residents of Greensboro, North Carolina ? who lived through the legal segregation and civil rights eras, this research demonstrates the interviewees? contemporary investment in positive notions of the white self and white society. The respondents' …
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The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California, 1945-1993
… on polarization. The conclusion is focused on Greensboro, Vermont, the place where Stegner chose to have his ashes spread after his death. Greensboro served as a realistic but still at times utopian foil for Stegner’s exploration of the western “formless non-communities” that are the focus …
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William Thomas Sutherlin, patriarch of Danville
… In 1849, Sutherlin married Jane Erwin Patrick of Greensboro, N. C. Seven years later the couple moved to their newly built country manor which has been preserved as a museum today. Sutherlin generously supported numerous industries in his hometown and constantly strove to protect the interests of …
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Systematics of Eastern North American Bracken Fern
… gene flow between the two varieties was found at Greensboro, NC, where the two morphotypes were easily recognizable. The isozyme evidence strongly indicates conspecificity, while the morphological evidence supports their status at the varietal level.
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From Malcolm X to Malcolm X Liberation University: A Liberatory Philosophy of Education, Black Student Radicalism and Black Independent Educational Institution Building 1960--1973
… University first in Raleigh-Durham, then Greensboro, North Carolina, illustrate the successful ideological connection between Malcolm X and Black Nationalism. MXLU, for all its deficiencies, was a place where the librated hopes of many Black folks came to fruition.
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From Malcolm X to Malcolm X Liberation University: a liberatory philosophy of education, Black student radicalism and Black independent educational institution building 1960-1973
… University first in Raleigh-Durham, then Greensboro, North Carolina, illustrate the successful ideological connection between Malcolm X and Black Nationalism. MXLU, for all its deficiencies, was a place where the librated hopes of many Black folks came to fruition.
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The Return: Understanding why Black Women Choose to "Go Natural"
… analyze and understand why some Black women in Greensboro, North Carolina have made the decision to wear their hair naturally, in its original kinky, curly, non-straightened form. I’ve chosen this topic because “in our society, long straight hair has generally been considered the gold standard …
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Consensus decision-making at Guilford College: a case study analysis
… liberal arts college with Quaker roots in Greensboro, North Carolina, employs the consensus model in college governance. Guilford College recently used the consensual model while developing a policy on open source containers of alcohol, particularly small kegs of beer, in College residence …
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The Geographies of the $15 Wage Movement: New Union Campaigns, Mobility Politics, and Local Minimum Wage Policies
… Illinois, and two cities in North Carolina, Greensboro and Durham. Drawing on one year of fieldwork and 101 interviews with policymakers, labor union staff, and activists, it argues that the $15 wage movement is an example of a broader shift in labor organizing that has taken root in the last …
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Multisensor Multitemporal Fusion for Remote Sensing using Landsat and MODIS Data
… For a challenging heterogeneous study area near Greensboro, North Carolina, WSTARFM produced results with median R-squared values of 0.98 and 0.95 for the near-infrared band over deciduous forests and developed areas, respectively. Those results were obtained by withholding an actual Landsat …
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Urban redevelopment for central business district of Martinsville, Virginia
… 56 miles north of Winston-Salem and Greensboro, North Carolina. The city was founded in 1793 and incorporated in 1873. Martinsville was chartered in 1928. Martinsville is the county seat for Henry County, and is governed by a manager-council form of municipal government. Indicative of …
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Performance of a Process Evaluation System in Outpatient Hospital-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation
… H. Cone Memorial Hospital, N.C. Heart Institute, Greensboro, NC, or Carolinaà Âs Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, covering a calendar period between 1995-97. The data were pooled from both sites for analyses and included patients with one or more of the following diagnoses: MI (37%), angina (14%), …
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