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inc. WKU, UofL, KHS, Sisters of Charity of Nazarth Archival Center, Lindsey Wilson, as well as several collections at UK

A nice list of Kentucky Women artists from the beginning of the Civil Rights Era through the present. If anyone should find this useful, the list comprises at least 48 diffrent female artists from Kentucky, some of whom have had experinces and involvement in the Civil Rights Era and have incorporated these feelings and ideas into their artwork.

While looking around on the internet to try and find more about women in the civil rights era I came across this link that talks a about a book that would be a good resource for our class and possibly some group projects. Its a book about Women in the Civil Rights Movement from 1954-1965. I don't know if it would help but it might!

It's definitley a book that I would look through if it is available at the library

Listened to the stroy of Joseph "Butch" Murrell. It was done by Kim Lady Smith for the Horse Industry in Kentucky Oral History Project. This will help with your orall project. Checkout the Kentucky Virtual Library it has some good stuff.

this essay describes the different approaches in which women have been recorded in history.

5 interviews with civil rights activists in the early 1980s (Anne Braden, Virginia Foster Durr, Amelia Robinson, Fred Shuttlesworth, Frederick Palmer Weber) who discuss their involvement in the Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund. Some of the main topics include segregation, poverty, legislation, and poll taxes. (Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460.) Braden interview by Linda Reed is 35 pages (90 minutes) - describes the disenfranchisement of Depression Era South and need for worker, economic and civil rights for Black Americans; discusses Congress of Industrial Organizations, House Un-American Activities Committee, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Southern Christian Leadership Conference as well as the structure of the SCEF and the Southern Patriot.

Here's a compilation of many different resources on Kentucky woment during World War II. Needs exploring by the class very interesting.

Thank you for this website! I find it very interesting to read about because I am joining the military. It is very informative and like you said interesting to read about!

This site provides a ton of information regarding the tough road most African Americans had to take in order to be treated with dignity and respect in the military, espically women.

He passed the Kentucky Civil Rights Act which was the first desegregation law passed by a southern sate. Has an oral history available in Kentucky libraries and it is also available online.

Thought this picture might be useful in the project on Female Orphan School to examine issues of class and race in the models of Kentucky womanhood projected from the school administrators for advertising purposes and/or fundraising. The role of the railroad and coal industries in the school could be examined also. Notes from KDL site: Woodford County, Kentucky. Kentucky Female Orphan School: Many girls at the Kentucky Female Orphan School, Midway, Ky. are daughters of Southern Railway men. In the background are several original buildings of the school which opened in 1849. Date: 1900 - 1954.

We were told in class early in the semester about the fire insurance maps ... here is a quick link one of Lexington. Or you could check the special collections at the UK library, I believe.

Can you remind me what fire insurance maps are helpful for finding? I remember we talked about them but don't remember why...

This data base searches for newspapers and where they are archived.

The M.I. King Library has already preserved some oral histories pertaining to Lexington's black churches during the civil rights movement: Harry Sykes: "Sykes recalls church involvement in the civil rights marches in Lexington and discusses his chairmanship of the Commission on Religion and Human Rights in the early 1960s." Robert Jefferson: "He details the role of the African American church in the community and during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and discusses his rejection of the non-violent faction of the movement." Albert Lee: "Reverend Lee discusses the role of the church in the African American community and the effects of segregation in Lexington." etc. There are tons of relevant interviews to be explored, most conducted with reverends. I only see ONE interview conducted with a woman about churches and the civil rights movement, perhaps a hole we could fill?

How might we encourage our readers to go in to an archives and see the primary sources themselves instead of hoping everything they want is digitized and available online? Think how much of women's history is going unnoticed and becomes forgotten in genealr narratives about our history...

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

Full access to this site can be reached through the UK libraries database search.

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