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Spartanburg was first known as Newberg, and under the latter name was founded in 1832. [3] A post office was established under the name Spartanburg in 1842, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907. [4] The Union Literary Institute, a school founded by Quakers for African-American students, was 2 miles from Spartanburg
The Indiana Klan was the state of Indiana branch of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret society in the United States that organized in 1915 to promote ideas of racial superiority and affect public affairs on issues of Prohibition, education, political corruption, and morality. Like the rest of the KKK, it was strongly white supremacist against African ...
Middletown: A Study in American Culture was primarily a look at changes in the white population of a typical American city between 1890 and 1925, a period of great economic change. The Lynds used the "approach of the cultural anthropologist " (see field research and social anthropology ), existing documents, statistics, old newspapers ...
A study which mapped patterns of segregation and congregation of incoming population groups [61] found that, if a majority group is reluctant to accept a minority influx, they may leave the district, avoid the district, or use tactics to keep the minority out. The minority group in turn react by either dispersing or congregating, avoiding ...
The OMB defines a core-based statistical area (commonly referred to as a CBSA) as the county or counties (or county-equivalents) surrounding at least one densely-settled core of at least 10,000 population, [2] "plus adjacent counties having a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured through commuting ties with ...
A fire tore through the 70-year-old Our Savior Evangelical Lutheran Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, on the morning of August 7, causing $1 million in damages, according to the Indianapolis Fire ...
IU President Pamela Whitten’s “militarization of this university has been a disgrace,” a member of the Bloomington Multi-faith Alliance said.
Health disparities, which are largely caused by unequal access to healthcare, can be defined as “a difference in which disadvantaged social groups such as the poor, racial/ethnic minorities, women and other groups who have persistently experienced social disadvantage or discrimination systematically experience worse health or greater health ...