Lasting Legacy To The Carolinas

Author : Robert Franklin Durden
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822321514
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas written by Robert Franklin Durden and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the majority of the founders of large philanthropic foundations in the United States, James B. Duke assumed that the Duke Endowment, which he established in 1924, would continue its charitable activity forever. Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas is an examination of the history of this foundation and the ways in which it has--and has not--followed Duke's original design. In this volume, Robert F. Durden explores how the propriety of linking together a tax-free foundation and an investor-owned, profit-seeking business like the Duke Power Company has significantly changed over the course of the century. Explaining the implications of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 for J. B. Duke's dream, Durden shows how the philanthropist's plan to have the Duke Endowment virtually own and ultimately control Duke Power (which, in turn, would supply most of the Endowment's income) dissolved after the death of daughter Doris Duke in 1993, when the trustees of the Endowment finally had the unanimous votes needed to sever that tie. Although the Endowment's philanthropic projects--higher education (including Duke University), hospitals and health care, orphan and child care in both North and South Carolina, and the rural Methodist church in North Carolina--continue to be served, this study explains the impact of a century of political and social change on one man's innovative charitable intentions. It is also a testimony to the many staff members and trustees who have invested their own time and creative energies into further benefiting these causes, despite decades of inevitable challenges to the Endowment. This third volume of Durden's trilogy relating to the Dukes of Durham will inform not only those interested in the continuing legacy of this remarkable family but also those involved with philanthropic boards, charitable endowments, medical care, child-care institutions, the rural church, and higher education.

Author : South Carolina. Department of Archives and History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lasting Legacy written by South Carolina. Department of Archives and History and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pamela Grundy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacy: Three Centuries of Black History in Charlotte, North Carolina written by Pamela Grundy and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories told by many generations of Charlotte's African American residents mingle strength and hardship, accomplishment and setback, joy and pain. Through slavery, through war, through Jim Crow segregation and into the 21st century Black residents from all walks of life have played essential roles in making Charlotte the city it is today. Everyone needs to know this history.

Author : Douglas W. Bostick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lasting Legacy written by Douglas W. Bostick and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shanna Greene Benjamin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469661896
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Half in Shadow written by Shanna Greene Benjamin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nellie Y. McKay (1930–2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting the canon-making with Henry Louis Gates Jr., which helped secure a place for the scholarly study of Black writing that had been ignored by white academia. However, there is more to McKay's life and legacy than her literary scholarship. After her passing, new details about McKay's life emerged, surprising everyone who knew her. Why did McKay choose to hide so many details of her past? Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay's path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy. Benjamin shows that McKay's secrecy was a necessary tactic that a Black, working-class woman had to employ to succeed in the white-dominated space of the American English department. Using extensive archives and personal correspondence, Benjamin brings together McKay’s private life and public work to expand how we think about Black literary history and the place of Black women in American culture.

Author : A. Liebling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137076062
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adlai Stevenson's Lasting Legacy written by A. Liebling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twice unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President of the United States, Adlai Stevenson played a key role in American politics throughout much of the middle of the Twentieth Century. This collection of essays from Senator Eugene McCarthy, Arthur Schlesinger, and others, looks at Stevenson's past and current societal significance.

Author : Jenessa Carr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Hillside High School written by Jenessa Carr and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis documents the history of Hillside High School in Durham, North Carolina from 1922-1972. From its inception during the Jim Crow era, Hillside provided a strong education for black students, despite the many obstacles it faced. With committed educators and excellent principals, Hillside, which was the pride of the black community, flourished. For five decades, Hillside's faculty and staff, backed by a supportive black community, fought to create an outstanding educational experience for blacks in North Carolina. To do so required dedication and persistence in a long struggle for equality and equity for black education at Hillside and throughout Durham. Students who attended Hillside knew that they were getting an excellent education because they were fostered by caring adults who wanted to see them succeed. Despite lacking funding and proper resources during the Jim Crow Era. Hillside remained strong and produced outstanding students. Hillside's core curriculum, which included occupational and academic courses, contributed to black uplift helping to prepare black students to survive after graduation. Finally, Hillside's location in Durham, the mecca of Black businesses, helped reinforce the institution's success and helped it create a lasting legacy in Durham and throughout North Carolina.

Author : Adrienne Young
Publisher : Wednesday Books
ISBN 13 : 1250823730
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Legacy written by Adrienne Young and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with The Last Legacy, a captivating standalone about family and blood ties, reinventing yourself, and controlling your own destiny. When a letter from her uncle Henrik arrives on Bryn Roth's eighteenth birthday, summoning her back to Bastian, Bryn is eager to prove herself and finally take her place in her long-lost family. Henrik has plans for Bryn, but she must win everyone’s trust if she wants to hold any power in the delicate architecture of the family. It doesn’t take long for her to see that the Roths are entangled in shadows. Despite their growing influence in upscale Bastian, their hands are still in the kind of dirty business that got Bryn’s parents killed years ago. With a forbidden romance to contend with and dangerous work ahead, the cost of being accepted into the Roths may be more than Bryn can pay.

Author : Carol Reardon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469630214
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to Antietam written by Carol Reardon and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Additionally, in its aftermath, President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous Emancipation Proclamation. In this engaging, easy-to-use guide, Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler allow visitors to understand this crucial Civil War battle in fine detail. Abundantly illustrated with maps and historical and modern photographs, A Field Guide to Antietam explores twenty-one sites on and near the battlefield where significant action occurred. Combining crisp narrative and rich historical context, each stop in the book is structured around the following questions: *What happened here? *Who fought here? *Who commanded here? *Who fell here? *Who lived here? *How did participants remember the events? With accessible presentation and fresh interpretations of primary and secondary evidence, this is an absolutely essential guide to Antietam and its lasting legacy.

Author : Michael Donovan Gahagan
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laurels of Madison County, North Carolina written by Michael Donovan Gahagan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laurels of Madison County. Part history, memoir and opinion. Stories of logging, mining, farming and families. The Laurels of Madison County is a book with many events and anecdotes that readers won't find in other books.