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John Sephus Mack (March 9, 1880 – September 27, 1940), was an American businessperson and philanthropist. He was the president of the G. C. Murphy Company , a prominent variety-store chain during the early 20th century.
Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. It is known for its conservative and evangelical cultural and religious positions. The university, with approximately 3,000 students, is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) and the ...
BJU Press is the largest book publisher in South Carolina, and more than a million pre-college students around the world use BJU textbooks. [5] The press also publishes trade books under two imprints.
The Parent Teacher Association of the segregated Hooper-Renwick School opened the Mack Haygood Public Library on May 30, 1958 in Lawrenceville, Georgia. [1] It was a segregated library for the Black residents of Gwinnett, Forsyth, and Dawson counties, who were not allowed into the Lake Lanier Regional Library system's white-only libraries [2] The majority of library users were from Gwinnett ...
Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (December 19, 1891 – October 22, 1974) was an American chemist, home economist, and college administrator. Her research in calcium , nutrition, radiation , and bone density began during the 1930s, and culminated in work for NASA when she was in her seventies.
At the same time, libraries began to develop applications to automate the purchase, cataloging, and circulation of books and other library materials. These applications, collectively known as an integrated library system (ILS) or library management system, included an online catalog as the public interface to the system's inventory. Most ...
Following the advent of the Digital Revolution, libraries began incorporating electronic information resources into their collections and services.The inclusion of these resources was driven by the core values of library science, as expressed by Raganathan's five laws of library science, especially the belief that electronic technologies made access to information more direct, convenient, and ...
The case was heard on October 12, 1982, and on May 24, 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Bob Jones University in Bob Jones University v. United States (461 U.S. 574). The university refused to reverse its interracial dating policy and (with difficulty) paid a million dollars in back taxes.