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    1. Civil War Letters Grapple with Gender, Interracial Marriage, and Working-Class Life - The Devil's Ta

      For instance, the historian Martha Hodes, who wrote her dissertation on interracial romantic relationships, was drawn to Eunice’s story.

    2. Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) and Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), Duke Chapte

      In the 1930s, both groups had Interracial Committees that met jointly with students from the Negro College in Durham (now North (...)

    3. Bibliography | Duke University Libraries

      November 5-6, 1938, “Interracial” .  Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Young Women’s (...)

    4. https://library.duke.edu/sites/default/files/rubenstein/pdf/womenatthecenter/wc-37.pdf

      Lillian Smith was a white civil rights activist, known for her 1944 novel Strange Fruit, which featured an interracial couple. Featured (...)

    5. Frequently Asked Questions | Duke University Libraries

      The 1951 basketball game between Duke and Temple University with an African-American starter, Samuel Sylvester, marked the campus’s first (...)

    6. Latinx Associations Today / Asociaciones Latinxs Actuales · Our history, our voice: Latinx at Duke /

      They include pictures found on social media or images shared with us from: Define America Gente Aprendiendo Para Nuevas Oportunidades Lambda (...)

    7. 1951 Duke-Temple Basketball Game · Duke University Library Exhibits

      This was the campus’s first interracial basketball game. Sylvester received a nearly two minute ovation from the entirely white crowd (...)

    8. Southern Women and Lynching · Duke University Library Exhibits

      In 1922 Ames became director of women’s work for the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in Atlanta. In 1930 Ames founded the (...)

    9. Resistance and Abolitionism in the United States - Franklin Research Center - Teaching with Primary

      The author criticized the American Colonization Society; addressed the issue of compensation of slaveholders for the price of slaves; condemned (...)

    10. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans · Duke University Library Exhibits

      Her first novel, Hobomok , about an interracial marriage between a white woman and a Native American, shocked reviewers but was (...)

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