Early Twentieth-Century Suburbs in North Carolina: Essays on History, Architecture and Planning.

1986 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 649
Author(s):  
Char Miller ◽  
Catherine W. Bishir ◽  
Lawrence S. Earley
Author(s):  
Reginald K. Ellis

This chapter examines the changing political awareness of Shepard after he became president of NCC. Moreover, this chapter evaluates Shepard’s role in the early civil rights movement in the Durham, North Carolina, area and how he was affected by the outcome of many protests that took place. Most important, this section tackles the idea of a “conservative” African American leader, such as a Booker T. Washington during the early twentieth century.


2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 364-382
Author(s):  
Seth Epstein

This article examines the contentious regulation of taxicabs in Asheville, North Carolina, to explore the strains on and supplements to paternalistic ways of knowing and governing in New South cities in the early twentieth century. Authorities attempted to manage marketplace meetings between drivers and patrons to create predictable and transparent places out of taxis in motion. Regulations governed who could act as driver and as customer, where they could meet, and the rates that the former could charge. However, each of these stages tended to produce spaces that resisted elites’ disciplinary aspirations. The regulation of taxis undermined paternalistic ways of governing and knowing the city while facilitating the dispersal of objective knowledge-creating technologies such as taximeters. Commissioners’ exercise of power rested on the belief that they could know taxi drivers, while taximeters’ exercise of power rested on the belief that they could know the city.


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