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Once Upon a City

By: Howard E. Covington Jr.

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If you love Greensboro, this book is for you. It is a twentieth-century history of our city that was researched and written over a five-year period by Howard Covington Jr., who is a splendid storyteller who makes our leaders, our crises, our successes, our disappointments, our accomplishments all come alive. --Joseph B. Mullin, Pastor Emeritus First Presbyterian Church Greensboro, North Carolina

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1491730277

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Terry Sanford

Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions

By: Howard E. Covington (Jr.),Howard E. Covington,Marion A. Ellis

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Terry Sanford

Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions

By: Howard E. Covington (Jr.),Howard E. Covington,Marion A. Ellis

Sanford was an important public figures of postwar South. First as North Carolina's governor and later as president of Duke University, he demonstrated a dynamic style of leadership marked by creativity, helping transform Southern life. 87 photos.

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Duke University Press

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0822323567

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The Story of Nationsbank

Changing the Face of American Banking

By: Howard E. Covington Jr.,Marion A. Ellis

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The Story of Nationsbank

Changing the Face of American Banking

By: Howard E. Covington Jr.,Marion A. Ellis

Charlotte-based NationsBank, formerly named NCNB, became one of the nation's leading financial powers following its acquisition in 1988 of First Republic Bank of Texas and its merger in 1991 with Atlanta-based C&S/Sovran. The authors provide a corporate history of this maverick financial institution.

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UNC Press Books

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1469647818

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9781469647814

Henry Frye

North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice

By: Howard E. Covington, Jr.

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Henry Frye

North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice

By: Howard E. Covington, Jr.

Henry E. Frye came of age just as the South was beginning a transformational change. When he graduated from college in 1953, African Americans like him could only hope that the future would be different from the past. At the close of his public career in 2001, he was chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court--the head of the state's third branch of government. Throughout their lives, Frye and his wife, Shirley, were in the vanguard of the advances that shaped the lives of African Americans. His election to the state legislature in 1968 was the beginning of steady, determined efforts to expand opportunities for African Americans in politics, business and society at large. This book traces, along with his career, the growing participation of African Americans in the civic, political and social life of North Carolina.

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McFarland

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0786475757

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Once Upon a City

By: Howard E. Covington Jr.

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Lending Power

How Self-Help Credit Union Turned Small-Time Loans into Big-Time Change

By: Howard E. Covington Jr.

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Lending Power

How Self-Help Credit Union Turned Small-Time Loans into Big-Time Change

By: Howard E. Covington Jr.

Established by Martin Eakes and Bonnie Wright in North Carolina in 1980, the nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help has grown from an innovative financial institution dedicated to civil rights into the nation's largest home lender to low- and moderate-income borrowers. Self-Help's first capital campaign—a bake sale that raised a meager seventy-seven dollars for a credit union—may not have done much to fulfill the organization's early goals of promoting worker-owned businesses, but it was a crucial first step toward wielding inclusive lending as a weapon for economic justice. In Lending Power journalist and historian Howard E. Covington Jr. narrates the compelling story of Self-Help's founders and coworkers as they built a progressive and community-oriented financial institution. First established to assist workers displaced by closed furniture and textile mills, Self-Help created a credit union that expanded into providing home loans for those on the margins of the financial market, especially people of color and single mothers. Using its own lending record, Self-Help convinced commercial banks to follow suit, extending its influence well beyond North Carolina. In 1999 its efforts led to the first state law against predatory lending. A decade later, as the Great Recession ravaged the nation's economy, its legislative victories helped influence the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the formation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Self-Help also created a federally chartered credit union to expand to California and later to Illinois and Florida, where it assisted ailing community-based credit unions and financial institutions. Throughout its history, Self-Help has never wavered from its mission to use Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of justice to extend economic opportunity to the nation's unbanked and underserved citizens. With nearly two billion dollars in assets, Self-Help also shows that such a model for nonprofits can be financially successful while serving the greater good. At a time when calls for economic justice are growing ever louder, Lending Power shows how hard-working and dedicated people can help improve their communities.

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Duke University Press

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0822372770

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Terry Sanford

Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions

By: Howard E. Covington (Jr.),Howard E. Covington,Marion A. Ellis

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Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions

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Henry Frye

North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice

By: Howard E. Covington, Jr.

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North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice

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Lending Power

How Self-Help Credit Union Turned Small-Time Loans into Big-Time Change

By: Howard E. Covington Jr.

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How Self-Help Credit Union Turned Small-Time Loans into Big-Time Change

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