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Full-Text Articles in Law
Blacks In Bridge, Wornie L. Reed
Blacks In Bridge, Wornie L. Reed
Trotter Review
Two events in the spring of 1991 brought to mind the long battle to integrate the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL), which barely beat out the Boston Red Sox in integrating its membership. One was the closing of the famous Cavendish Bridge Club in New York City; the other was a bridge tournament that combined the efforts of ACBL and ABA (American Bridge Association) clubs in the Washington, D.C. area. The ABA is the national association of black bridge players. Both events appear to have been precipitated by a decline in the number of bridge players as the baby boomer …
Black, Brown, Poor & Poisoned: Minority Grassroots Environmentalism And The Quest For Eco-Justice, Regina Austin, Michael H. Schill
Black, Brown, Poor & Poisoned: Minority Grassroots Environmentalism And The Quest For Eco-Justice, Regina Austin, Michael H. Schill
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Women Of Color And Health: Issues Of Gender, Community, And Power, Judy Scales-Trent
Women Of Color And Health: Issues Of Gender, Community, And Power, Judy Scales-Trent
Journal Articles
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The Effect Of The 1964 Civil Rights Act On Black Americans, Quentin Jamil Moses
The Effect Of The 1964 Civil Rights Act On Black Americans, Quentin Jamil Moses
Theses Digitization Project
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Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women Of Color, Equality, And The Right Of Privacy, Dorothy E. Roberts
Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women Of Color, Equality, And The Right Of Privacy, Dorothy E. Roberts
All Faculty Scholarship
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The Black Surrogate Mother, Anita L. Allen
The Black Surrogate Mother, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
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The "Virginian-Pilot" Newspaper's Role In Moderating Norfolk, Virginia's 1958 School Desegregation Crisis, Alexander Stewart Leidholdt
The "Virginian-Pilot" Newspaper's Role In Moderating Norfolk, Virginia's 1958 School Desegregation Crisis, Alexander Stewart Leidholdt
Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education
This dissertation explores the critical role played by the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot newspaper's editor, Lenoir Chambers, in moderating public opinion during Norfolk, Virginia's, 1958/1959 public-school closing.
In 1958 the nation's attention was focused on Norfolk. In an attempt to stymy judicially mandated integration, Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., supported by the powerful political organization of United States senator Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., ordered the city to close its public schools.
Norfolk was a major urban area. Over ten thousand students were displaced by the state action; and four months after the closing, three thousand students were still receiving no education. …