Wade was the first African-American to attend a white public school in Fayette County when she took a summer school class at Lafayette High School in 1955.
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Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights ... - Jessie C... - 0 views
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Audrey Grevious sit-in protests and organized demonstrations.
Mary Virginia Cook Parrish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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by "dream big"
Oral history interview with Murray Atkins Walls and John Walls. :: African American Ora... - 0 views
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Oral history interview with Murray Atkins Walls and John Walls, conducted July 27, 1977 by Dwayne Cox. Most of the interview focuses on Murray Atkins Walls, although her husband, John Walls, is also an active participant. They were both involved in civil rights activities in Louisville and so share many experiences.
EBSCOhost: Actuating Equity: Historical and Contemporary Analyses of African American ... - 0 views
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This piece discussed the focus of what drew my attention from the KET documentary, education.
Notable Kentucky African Americans - Race War in Mayfield, KY - 0 views
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This explanation is an excellent precursor to the events described by Jennie and Alice Wilson. History of Mayfield and existing racial tensions give a good background to the violence the oral history interview shares.
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Helen Caise Wade - Woman who broke color barrier visits Rosa Parks Elementary School - 0 views
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Jennifer Jones, a teacher at Rosa Parks Elementary school in Lexington, invited Helen Caise Wade to speak with her students about integrating an all-white school in Lexington in 1955.
Lauren Kientz Anderson - blog post on (S-USIH) U.S. Intellectual History: "Prove it on ... - 0 views
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From H-Women (5/3/2012) From: "Lauren Kientz Anderson" Subject: Re: bourgeois vacuity In one of my previous blog posts, I wrote about the claim that the black middle class was vacuous during the 1920s. In the comments, I was challenged to update my historiography on the politics of respectability. This gave me the chance to read Erin Chapman's excellent new work, *Prove it on Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s. *Her prose is gorgeous and dense. Many of the things I was feeling instinctually, she articulates with precision." Here's Chapman's challenge to Anderson.
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two major camps. There were those who sought to modernize and professionalize established ideologies of racial advancement, solidarity, and uplift through a New Negro progressivism.... Others.. questioned, if not the very idea of racial solidarity itself, then at least the obligation of racial allegiance and respectability, and instead touted a radical individualism and independence from all but the most personal allegiances to 'art' or 'self' or some other self-generated ideal."
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transition between the politics of respectability and New Negro Modernism
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Jayme Coleman: National Visionary Leadership Project: African American History - 0 views
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Dr. Jamye Coleman William’s teaching career spans almost fifty years, the last fourteen of which she served as the head of the Department of Communication at Tennessee State University. In 1984, she assumed the editorship of the AME Church Review, the oldest black journal in America, becoming the first woman to be elected as a major officer in the 197-year history of the AME Church.
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Williams’ co-edited the 1970 publication, The Negro Speaks: The Rhetoric of Contemporary Black Leaders.
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VIDEO CLIPS
Digital Librarian: African-Americans - 0 views
Kentucky Women - Search Results - The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collectio... - 1 views
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inc. WKU, UofL, KHS, Sisters of Charity of Nazarth Archival Center, Lindsey Wilson, as well as several collections at UK
Women in Kentucky - Public Service in Kentucky - 2 views
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intersection of gender and race in lexington
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The reason given for the repeal is the large number African American women voting in a block in the 1901 Lexington school board elections.
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A very helpful timeline to put things into reference. From 1838 all the way to 1999.
Georgia Powers Interview - 1 views
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This is the transcript of an interview done with Georgia Powers, Kentucky's first female African American Senator. This is also an excellent piece if anyone wants to include oral history into their project and also makes a great primary source.
Image Collections - 2 views
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ap view all images from this collection Thirty-one African American girls who passed swim tests with swimming school staff. Front Row, Emily Coleman, Mary L. Taylor, Julia Mukes, Ella F. Moss, Nannie Covington, Virginia Williams, Costella Peck, Dolersa Hobbs, Lena Walker, Alva Patton, Annie Lacefield, Geraldine Moore, Dora Madison, Nena Curry. Second Row, Annette Brown, Rominti Wade, Anna Thacker, Geraldine Penman, Ann Roach, Nannette Johnson, Shirley Wright, Mary Williams, Louise Henderson, Vada Lawson, Geraldine Garner, Mattie B. Ray, Mary J. Butler, Margaret Floyd, Dorsey Williams, Pauline Fender, Anna B. Bailey. Back row, Osborne Price, lifeguard; Margaret Covington, leader; A.D. Burroughs, pool manager; Mrs. H.H. Rowe, director of city recreation and Douglas park; George Elliott, Herald-Leader instructor; Russell Hill, assistant instructor; Juanita Rankin, leader; and Kenneth Dunson, lifeguard. (This image was published in: Herald-Leader )
National Federation of Republican Women - 0 views
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The story of Republican women's clubs begins many years before women even had the right to vote.
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Hundreds of independent Republican women’s clubs grew up around the nation in the years to come. For example, there were 140 clubs in Indiana alone by the late 1930s.
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Programs such as NFRW’s campaign management schools, women candidate seminars, and polling schools have trained literally thousands of Republican women and men to help elect GOP candidates, and communities throughout the nation have benefited from the volunteer services of NFRW’s Caring for America and literacy programs.
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Urban League of Lexington releases "State of Black Lexington" report - 1 views
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A report from a group that included people from the Urban League, the Lexington Commission on Race Relations, the University of Kentucky, the Office of the Mayor and other groups. The report includes a public opinion survey of 600 Fayette County residents (200 Whites, 200 Blacks, 200 Hispanics) by a reputable marketing communications and research firm.
Women in Kentucky - 0 views
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On January 6th, the first day of the legislative session, Kentucky ratifies the 19th Amendment.
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National American Woman Suffrage Association dissolves and reorganizes as League of Women Voters to operate on local, state and national levels. Kentucky Equal Rights Association becomes L.W.V.
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Mary Elliott Flanery becomes Kentucky and the South’s first female legislator when she is elected to the House of Representatives.
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Very neat time line which includes many KY women from the years 1500s to 1999. Really neat to see that in 1970, it was the first time for a female jockey to partake in the Derby! -
I found this the other day wile I was searching around the internet. I think it helps give a big picture view of women in Kentucky and helps give perspective to the long history of women in Kentucky
Scriptural Because We've Always Done It! - Robertson - 0 views
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"The first orphan home under a board of directors, and supported by churches of Christ, since the beginning of the Restoration was organized in Midway, Ky. The charter for this home, known as the Kentucky Female Orphan School, was granted by the General Assembly February 23, 1847.
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Although the name of this institution was Kentucky Female Orphan School, it was also a home.
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Dr. Pinkerton was interested in the education of girls it was natural that his desire to be of help to orphan girls should take the form of a school which should be to them not only a home, but also a means of education.'
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