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Randolph Hollingsworth

50th Anniversary Conference: Kentucky Commission on Human Rights - 1 views

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civil rights Kentucky State University Kentucky housing discrimination activism careers

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 06 Oct 10
     
    Thursday, Oct. 14th in Louisville, the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights will celebrate its 50th Anniversary Civil and Human Rights Conference. John Trasviña, assistant Secretary of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity for the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, will announce the launch of a new HUD Fair Housing Innovative Education Program at Kentucky State University. The program is called The National Fair Housing Collegiate Partnership and is a practical concept designed to promote fair housing and educate students about their rights under the U.S. Fair Housing Act. This law prohibits discrimination in housing based on race, color, religion, disability, sex, national origin and families with children. The HUD partnership program at Kentucky State University will also provide information for students who have interests in pursuing civil rights related careers.
robert michael

Eleanor Jordan/ kentucky historical society database for kentucky civil rights oral his... - 0 views

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civil rights movement Eleanor Jordan kentucky women

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  • robert michael on 01 Nov 10
     
    Here is an excerpt from the khs catalog Eleanor Jordan Collection Name: The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Interview Date: 2/3/1999 Synopsis: Jordan tells of her developing awareness of civil inequalities as a young woman and memories of segregation at Louisville amusement parks, retail stores, and movies. She also remembers people involved in the civil rights activity related to schools and housing. She attributes her developing black consciousness and pride to her mother and to some school teachers who introduced her to American History and Black History.
Jamsasha Pierce

Kentucky: Kentucky Commission on Human Rights - 1960's - 1 views

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  • The Kentucky General Assembly passes the Kentucky Civil Rights Act and Governor Edward T. Breahitt signs it into law on January 27, 1966. The Act prohibits discrimination in employment and public accommodations based on race, national origin, color, and religion. Kentucky becomes the first state in the South pass a civil rights law. It becomes the first in the south to establish enforcement powers over civil rights violations on a state level. The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights becomes the state enforcement authority of the Act.    The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights publishes "Negro Employment in Kentucky State Agencies" in February 1966, tracking for the first time African American employment statistics of the state government workforce. On August 26, 1966, the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights opens an office in Louisville, Ky., to “increase field service activities in the western half of the state, where some 70 percent of Kentucky’s Negroes live,” say state officials.
  • Jamsasha Pierce on 09 Nov 10
     
    this is very interesting info
Randolph Hollingsworth

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

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Georgia Davis Powers civil rights Kentucky women history

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 12 Oct 10
     
    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.
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Important women throughout Kentucky's history - 3 views

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Women's history civil rights reformers education

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  • Mary __ on 22 Sep 10
     
    I think that this article gives a good insight into the influential women that have come out of Kentucky. It gives brief descriptions of each of the women. This could be a very helpful resource to look back at which women were the most influential.
  • charlie v on 22 Sep 10
     
    Many influential artists, sculpture and painters came from Kentucky that were women. I too grew up in Louisville like many of these artists and found it cool that a scultpture from louisville did the Daniel Boone sculpture in Cherokee Park.
Jamsasha Pierce

AMC - POSTSCRIPT - 2 views

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  • From its start as the WAAC in 1942 until the end of World War II in 1946, only two black women from Kentucky would join the Women's Army Corps and go on to become officers, Anna Clarke and Mary A. Bordeaux (from Louisville), who was a member of the first Officer Candidate Class at Fort Des Moines and eventually was assigned to WAC recruiting duty in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Anna Mac Clarke was a pioneer, part of a unique group of women who came together for one purpose, to help their country win a world war. She and her sister WAACs would also fight another war at home; that of racism, and they, as one unified force, began to break down the barriers of her race and gender which would eventually lead to the civil rights movement of the late 1940s, up through the 1960s. Anna Mac would never know the full impact her efforts to right injustice would have on things that we take for granted today, not only in the military, but in the civilian world as well.
  • The Women's Armed Services Integration Act gave women permanent military status in the regular army or reserves.
  • Jamsasha Pierce on 29 Sep 10
     
    Very interesting to see Black women in the arm forces and to see that they were able to become officers in a time like this
  • charlie v on 30 Sep 10
     
    I found this site interesting, espically that after her death, President Truman made an executive order for the equality of blacks in our military.
  • anonymous on 30 Sep 10
     
    There were actually quite a few African American WACs from Kentucky. See the NKAA entry "African American WACs who were Born in Kentucky" at http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NKAA/record.php?note_id=2139 and the "WACs" subject heading at http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NKAA/subject.php?sub_id=142
Randolph Hollingsworth

Kent State at UK, by Richard Becker - 0 views

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SDS Students for a Democratic Society University of Kentucky Louie B. Nunn free speech student radicalism

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 28 Oct 10
     
    Here's the primary source for information on Bill Dady, a SDS organizer from Atlanta who lived at the Bradens while campaigning against a segregated public pool in Louisville and negotiating with the Kentucky Human Rights Commission.
Randolph Hollingsworth

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

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kentucky women civil rights march Frankfort 1964

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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
charlie v

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kentucky women civil rights Peace

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  • charlie v on 01 Nov 10
     
    The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was an organization used by Anne Braden in Louisville to keep in touch on a national level, to discuss issues going on all across the United States. Braden was also involved in Women's for Peace Group associated in Louisville and shared information with both groups. The website discuss the goals of todays organization and provides history of the organization.
Big Bird

400 Arrested in Kentucky Riots - 0 views

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Kentucky Louisville history civil rights education segregation school

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  • Big Bird on 11 Nov 10
     
    This is an article from the New York times describing the riots that occurred in Lousiville due to the desegregation of its local schools. These riots happened in 1975, more than 20 years after the famous Brown vs. Board of Education court case which ended segregation in schools.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Civil Rights Driving Tour, Louisville Kentucky - 0 views

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 23 Apr 13
     
    Includes a stop at Anne Braden's home, 4403 Virginia Ave.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research - 0 views

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Anne Braden social justice civil rights primary sources Kentucky women digital

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 04 Nov 10
     
    Wonderful resources available here at the website for the UofL Anne Braden Institute - the Director is Dr. Cate Fosl who is joining us on Nov 18th with the AASRP Dialogues on Race session on Anne Braden.
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