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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Southern states"”.
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Effectiveness of Pre-Baccalaureate Health Careers Opportunity Programs (HCOP) for Disadvantaged Students in Three Southern States.
<p>This study evaluated three HCOP projects to determine, describe, and assess their overall effectiveness and identify successful strategies used by these projects to reach their specific objectives. Demographic and scholastic data were collected about 393 HCOP participants at the three HCOP …
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The Effects of Voter Registration Systems on Presidential Election Turnout in Non-Southern States: 1912-1924
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The history and development of the Virginia Seed Service, Inc. into the Southern States Cooperative, Inc.
The Virginia Seed Service had its beginning in an older organization, the Virginia Crop Improvement Association. This later association was developed to stimulate the more widespread use of improved seed for field crops.
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TEACHERS’ EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT ATTITUDE TOWARD HOMOSEXUALITY: THE ROLE OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MOTIVATION TO RESPOND WITHOUT PREJUDICE
… experienced in their environment, especially in Southern States. Teachers are the most available and sought after adults by sexual minority students, helping them to mitigate such toxic environments. In this study, the aim was to examine the relationship between implicit and explicit attitudes of …
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Temperance Reform in the Cotton Kingdom
… reform activity was located there, and because Southern states expressed opposition to what they branded as fanatical social ideas, most notably abolition. The prominence of abolition among the varieties of reform, in conjunction with Southern defense of the peculiar institution has contributed …
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Evaluation of the Persistence of Grazing Alfalfa Varieties
… stocking by dairy cows. The varieties, Southern States Graze King, WL 324, Garst 645 II, WL 325 HQ, ABT 405, and Spredor III were established March 29, 2000 and harvested three times for hay throughout the year. Grazing was begun in April 2001 and ended in September 2001. Each plot was …
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Reconstruction Unbound: American Worldviews In A Period of Promise and Conflict, 1865-1874
<p>In studying the United States' Reconstruction, historians have long devoted their energies to examining conflicts in and about the southern states. These conflicts, and the often brilliant literature devoted to them, cannot and should not be trivialized in understanding U.S. history during and …
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A study of Sclerotium rolfsii, sacc.
… is a fungus that is prevalent throughout the southern states, and at times causes very serious losses to farm crops and ornamental plants. It causes a disease known as Sclerotium Wilt, Southern Wilt, or Southern Blight. The Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station has received many complaints …
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Heritage or Hate?: An Examination of Americans’ Popular Memory of the Confederate States of America and Its Icons
During the American Civil War, the southern states declared themselves an independent nation called the Confederate States of America. After the Civil War ended, the Confederacy was reabsorbed into the United States. However, its memory and icons continued to be perceived separately. The current …
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The perceptions, holiday expectations and holiday experiences of German speaking visitors to southern Australia
… to identify some of the reasons why Australia's southern states (Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia) do not attract as many German speaking visitors as Queensland and New South Wales. It was hypothesised that Southern Australia was less attractive to German speaking visitors because of a …
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Effect of postemergence johnsongrass control on MCDV and MDMV incidence and severity in field corn
… incidence and severity in a virus-susceptible ('Southern States 565') and a virus-tolerant ('Southern States 844) corn hybrid. Visual injury evaluations taken 10 weeks after treatment showed that the virus-susceptible com hybrid sustained significantly more injury, averaged across johnsongrass …
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Yield and water use efficiency of different plant populations of dryland corn and sorghum
… thousand plants ha⁻¹ and cultivars Dekalb-48 and Southern States 1212 on a 46-cm inter-row spacing. Experimental plots were laid out in randomized complete blocks with four replications. Soil water measurements were taken non-destructively at 10-day intervals after planting and at 20-cm intervals …
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Origins of the Movement and the Development of Protest: The Birmingham Campaign, 1963
… for how the black protest developed in the southern states. This study takes the emergence and development of protest in Birmingham, Alabama, culminating in the Birmingham Campaign of 1963, as a case study to examine the claims of RM and PPT. An evaluation of the Birmingham Campaign suggests …
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The Development of Secondary Education for Black Students in Columbus, Georgia 1920-1930
… in the state of Georgia and throughout other southern states.</p>
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The Southern perception of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1845-1853
… examines the awareness and response of the slave states to the conditions and events in the Trans-Mississippi West from Texas Annexation through the Oregon Question, Mexican War, California Gold Rush, Compromise of 1850 to the Pacific Railroad and Gadsden Purchase. The people of the Southern …
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Virginia and the Equal Rights Amendment
… the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) began in the states. Many states quickly ratified the amendment but the ERA stalled fifteen states short of the necessary three-fourths to become part of the United States Constitution. Virginia was one of the states who did not ratify the amendment and this …
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Virginia's Pupil Placement Board and the Massive Resistance Movement, 1956-1966
… in the 1950s. Following the example of other Southern states, the state's General Assembly passed the Pupil Placement Act in 1956 as part of a package of legislation designed to counteract the Supreme Court desegregation ruling. The Act, and the Pupil Placement Board that enforced it, lasted a …
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The rural elderly: personal innovativeness toward housing and acceptance of nontraditional housing types
… individuals. The study analyzed data from the Southern Regional Research Project, 5-194, "Barriers and Incentives to Affordable Housing." The sample consisted of 1,878 respondents over age 55 who resided in 28 communities in seven southern states. A conceptual study framework was proposed to …
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Variables that Attract and Retain Middle-Income Families to Urban Public Schools
… who migrated to the cities from poor Southern states. Again, the idea of mass education of the public, funded by the public, became the panacea for all the problems of city living. The civil rights movement brought a flood of litigation, and courts attempted to provide equal …
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