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North Carolina Law Review. 75 (1): 273. SSRN 1121504. Chin, Gabriel J., and Rose Cuison Villazor, eds. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965: legislating a new America (Cambridge University Press, 2015). LeMay, Michael C. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965: A Reference Guide (ABC-CLIO, 2020). Orchowski, Margaret Sands.
[11] [1] Other important factors at the time that led to general increases in women's participation in the workforce include the rise of the tertiary sector (see table), increases in part-time jobs, adoption of labor-saving household technologies, increased education, and the elimination of "marriage bar" laws and policies. [2] "Marriage bars ...
North Carolina seceded from the United States in 1861 and joined the Confederate States of America to fight in the American Civil War. [40] Many Indians and Buckskin whites were unenthusiastic about the war; [41] most local supporters of the Confederate cause were wealthy or well-educated. [42]
Barack Obama won Florida, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, and Virginia in 2008 but did not repeat his victory in North Carolina during his 2012 reelection campaign. [190] Joe Biden also performed well for a modern Democrat in the South, winning Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and Georgia, in the 2020 United States presidential election.
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all the world's countries—including all the great powers—participated, with many investing all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between military and ...
The modern history begins in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy in 1961 issued Executive Order 10925, which required government contractors to take "affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."
These groups conducted enslaving raids in what is now Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and possibly Alabama. [19] The Carolina slave trade, which included both trading and direct raids by colonists, [20] was the largest among the British colonies in North America, [21] estimated at 24,000 to 51,000 Native Americans ...
Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History. OCLC 46398241. Powell, William S. (1976). The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807812471. Powell, William S. (1977). When the Past Refused to Die: A History of Caswell County, North Carolina, 1777 ...