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aggressive’” (“Thomas Francis Dorsey” 1). He was likely the most aggressive band leader there was. Even though he had a temper race did not affect who was in his band; he even “had to fight on behalf of his black musicians [...] at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Tommy had to threaten that the whole band would walkout to ensure Shavers [a black musician] would be allowed onstage” (Larsen 1). He was not like most whites, race did not matter to him. He allowed any black into his…

Author Thesis Paper: Women in Revolution Mary Beth Norton goes in to great detail in her piece of literature she wrote in 1980, Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women about American women from 1750 to the 1800s. She goes into detail how woman had few if any rights and were degenerated by others before the war. After the Revolutionary War, women were more active in the political world and had more value than before. Women’s role started to change during this time,…

It is a blustery Saturday morning in New York City, as high school students frantically stream through the doors of the local high school. Test proctors assign students to their seats, as preparations for the exam to begin. It is a day that will determine the rest of their career and lives. It is SAT test day. Test proctors direct Joe Harris, a white, upper class student, towards a seat near Wes James, a black, lower class student. Joe has attended the one of the best prep schools in New York:…

Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and Medical Ethics. University of Maryland. Retrieved March 14, 2017, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rg75zEVB1g Polit, D. F., & Beck, C. T. (2014). Essentials of Nursing Research: Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolkers Kluwers Health: Lippincott. Reverby, S. M. (2003). Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina. Sargent, J. (Director). (1997). Miss Evers'…

arbara Percival In Preparation of an AFL-CIO Exhibit This past semester, I conducted my field study within the setting of an academic library working with the university archivists at the Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland (UMD). Due to unforeseen circumstances, my field study had to be cobbled together rather quickly and therefore consists of a patchwork. For example, there have been two projects in my field study with two different supervisors in two different departments.…

As a upcoming nursing student, I like to see the students wearing their green scrubs. I have noticed at times, that the proud models of those green scrubs are female students. Even when I go to the hospital, rarely do I observe any males wearing nursing scrubs. Nursing has been a professional occupation often associated with femininity. Demographically, statistics show that indeed, females comprise this profession overwhelmingly. Because of these, many claim that males are discriminated upon in…

"A Psychohistorical Analysis of the Japanese American Internment." Human Rights Quarterly 17, no. 4 (1995): 618-48. doi:10.1353/hrq.1995.0039. Gyory, Andrew. Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Railton, Ben. The Chinese Exclusion Act: What It Can Teach Us about America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. US, Congress. "Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882." Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882. 1882. Accessed…

American women didn’t always have equal rights and the discrimination against women have existed since the beginning of times. Anne Bradstreet, a poet of many love poems, is the author of “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and the poem “Before the Birth of One of her Children”. Bradstreet started writing in the 1630s and held a significant viewpoint because of her background and life as a Puritan. A follower of the strict Puritan religion, Ann Bradstreet depicts viewpoints and what it’s meant to…

H. FLOWERS’ INTO THE PULPIT: SOUTHERN BAPTIST WOMEN AND POWER SINCE WORLD WAR II Matthew Raymond Statler HISTORY OF THE BAPTISTS MARCH 27, 2016 Flowers, Elizabeth Into the Pulpit. Flowers holds a Doctorate in Religion from Duke University, a Masters in Divinity from Princeton and a Bachelors degree from Millsap’s College in Jackson Mississippi. She is currently an Associate Professor of Religion at TCU. Some of her works include Into the pulpit: Southern Baptist Women and…

As time passed and more historians began to write about the history in a more sensitive manner, they used Raboteau’s work as a standard to follow. Laurie Maffy-Kipp, an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill wrote the academic article The Church in the Southern Black Community: Introduction, published in 2001. This article contained a general overview of the history and customs African-American churches in the South after emancipation…