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Randolph Hollingsworth

Section of Highway in Louisville named for Georgia Davis Powers - Press Release June 16... - 0 views

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    Press release of unveiling of new highway sign by Governor Beshear and Louisville-area community leaders to celebrate Georgia Davis Powers - 7.5 mile section of I-264 in western Louisville is now the Georgia Davis Powers Expressway as per the House Joint Resolution 67 of the 2010 General Assembly.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Celia's Land: A Historical Novel - by Georgia Davis Powers - 1 views

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    Powers turned her attention to her family genealogy, trying to find out more about her great-aunt Celia Mudd, who was born into slavery but eventually inherited the rural Kentucky farm in Nelson County on which she spent all her life. Powers found a 1902 will in which Sam Lancaster, whose father had bought the farm, left all 500 acres to Georgia's Aunt Celia. Lancaster's surviving brother sued and the case went to Kentucky's highest court, yet most newspapers declined to report about it. After winning the case Celia Mudd become a local philanthropist. Powers wrote up this family history as a novel.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Center for Research on Violence Against Women - Univ of KY - 1 views

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    NOTE: Carol Jordan has been leading a "Fundraising effort launched to complete two endowed chairs while honoring former Senator Georgia Davis Powers and former First Lady Judi Conway Patton."
Randolph Hollingsworth

Rep. John Yarmuth, "In Recognition of Senator Georgia Powers' Service to Kentucky and t... - 1 views

  • Today, in Louisville, a major thoroughfare will be named in honor of Senator Georgia Davis Powers.
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    SPEECH OF HON. JOHN A. YARMUTH OF KENTUCKY IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010 celebrating Senator Powers' expressway in Louisville
Randolph Hollingsworth

The day I met Martin Luther King [Opinion: The Arena] | Louisville.com - 0 views

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    Unlike many other histories, this narrative puts a woman leader - Georgia Davis Powers - at the top of the list of those who organized the March on Frankfort
Randolph Hollingsworth

Georgia Davis Powers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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    This needs fixing!!! Sad that it is a wiki-orphan! and no other sources besides her memoir ~ surely we can do better for the Senator than this.
Randolph Hollingsworth

New Highway Sign Honors Former Senator Georgia Davis Powers | Kentucky Senate Democrati... - 0 views

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    This news announcement has a nice picture that is recent - let's find out iif photos provided by "LRC Public Information" (Legislative Research Council) are in the public domain and we can use it to fix the Wikipedia entry on her.
tiger lily

Georgia Powers talking about the march on Frankfort. - 2 views

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    This is a great Primary source of Georgia Davis Powers talking about the 1964 march on Frankfort trying to pass equal housing bill for Kentucky.
charlie v

Georgia Davis Powers KET video - 0 views

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    This is the interview of Mrs. Powers and is extremely beneficial to our study of her. I think she was one of the most influential women of all time. She was able to influence and change so many lives in Kentucky and through out the south.
charlie v

Public Service by Georgia Davis Powers - 0 views

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    This gives a vague overview for people who want to learn some intresting facts about this amazing women from Kentucky and the things she was able to accomplish during her time as a senator for 21 years in Kentucky.
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