Boss Cox's Cincinnati
Boss Cox's Cincinnati

Author: Zane L. Miller

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780814208618

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Miller carefully explores both the nature and the significance of bossism, showing how it and municipal reform were both essential components of the modern urban political system.

The Textile Industry in North Carolina
The Textile Industry in North Carolina

Author: Brent D. Glass

Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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Author Brent D. Glass examines North Carolina's textile industry from its roots in the spinning wheels and handlooms of the colonial and antebellum periods through the massive buy-outs, consolidations, and plant closings of the 1980s. Contains more than 50 black-and-white illustrations and a selected bibliography.

To Live and Dine in Dixie
To Live and Dine in Dixie

Author: Angela Jill Cooley

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0820347582

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This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of racial segregation in public eating places. Significant legal changes later supported the unprecedented progress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.