Skip to main content

Home/ KY women and civil rights history/ Group items tagged Audrey Grevious

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Randolph Hollingsworth

Audrey Grevious Interview 1999 - full transcription as PDF - 1 views

205.204.134.47/...KCRP.20.B.21.Grevious.pdf

civil rights Dunbar High School Kentucky women history segregation NAACP CORE Lexington East End Historic Pleasant Green Baptist Church education Audrey Grevious

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 28 Sep 10
     
    Betsy Brinson, Civil Rights in KY project director for KY Oral HIstory Commission, interviewed Audrey Grevious of Lexington at her home in Fayette County, April 13, 1999. A powerful storyteller and great educator, Grevious is generous in her oral history interview though she tries to downplay the fact that she played a major role in the local civil rights movement here in central Kentucky. From KHS catalog "Audrey Grevious speaks of her early education in Black schools which led her to become a teacher. She also became an activist, and, as President of the Lexington NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) together with Julia Lewis, President of Lexington CORE (Congress on Racial Equality) led a movement to challenge segregation in employment, and public accommodations. She notes the involvement of maids and non-profession people and the scarcity of ministers, with the exception of Rev. W.A. Jones, Historic Pleasant Green Baptist Church. When school integration came to Lexington, she tells how the Black students and teachers lost out."
aplatonic 3

Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights ... - Jessie C... - 0 views

books.google.com/books

freedom facts civil rights

shared by aplatonic 3 on 04 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • aplatonic 3 on 04 Mar 13
     
    Audrey Grevious sit-in protests and organized demonstrations.
aplatonic 3

Lexington, Kentucky - Gerald L. Smith, Gerald Smith - Google Books - 1 views

books.google.com/books

sit-ins demonstrations

shared by aplatonic 3 on 04 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • aplatonic 3 on 04 Mar 13
     
    Images of Civil Demonstrations in Lexington, KY from "Black America Series" by Gerald L.Smith
aplatonic 3

The Black Commentator - Freedom Rider: No Civil Rights in Kentucky - Issue 100 - 1 views

www.blackcommentator.com/...00_freedom_rider_kentucky.html

black commentator

shared by aplatonic 3 on 07 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The city’s two daily newspapers, the Herald and the Leader, worked hand in hand with respected pillars of the community and decided to ignore the revolution. The press took their orders from the powerful and didn’t report one of the biggest news stories in American history. Lexington had demonstrations, sit-ins and other protests, but the papers didn’t acknowledge their complicity in telling a lie until earlier this month.
  • The white citizenry of Lexington decided that pretense was preferable to the truth and chose not to point out the elephant in the living room. “Good” white people like Fred Wachs, general manager and publisher of both newspapers, said they wanted change, but didn’t think that anyone demanding it was worthy of an expenditure of newsprint.
  • The godfathers of Lexington told people where they could and could not live, and could and could not work, and could and could not go to school and yet were not labeled rabble rousers. That honor fell on those who risked death, injury and loss of livelihood to demand a just society.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Of course there was another very simple reason to deny the existence of the movement in Lexington and other cities. The lack of coverage discouraged activism. Many more people would have been galvanized by the courage of Audrey Ross Grevious and thousands of others.
1 - 5 of 5
Showing 20▼ items per page