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This is another example of a women that was able to achieve equality with the men in her town based on her economic status. She should also be known for acquiring and holding on to her businesses herself.

This article gives insight to Martha Layne Collins' community and professional life, as of 2012.

This was an amazing women from Kentucky. I believe her will to get women involved in the business world was incredible. She created a club that is today an international womens business club and she was the first women to graduate from the University of Kentucky Law School.

This website offers information about Mrs. Phillips, a Kentucky graduate who formed a national and then international group or club for the equality of women through business and economic stand points. The group is called the International Federation of Business and Professional Women.

Oral history interview conducted with Louise Reynolds on June 13, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Louise Reynolds was the first African American woman elected alderman in the city of Louisville. Ms. Reynolds discusses her work with the Republican Party, including her work as a precinct committeewoman, in the party's headquarters, and for Representative John Robsion. She worked for Robsion in the 1950s, and was elected to Louisville's Board of Alderman in 1961. Ms. Reynolds discusses the legislation passed during her time on the board, including the Public Accommodations Ordinance, the establishment of the Human Relations Commission, and an Equal Opportunity ordinance, and her involvement in trying to pass an open housing ordinance. She discusses the administrations of mayors William Cowger, and to a lesser extent, Kenneth Schmied. She also describes a visit to the White House at the invitation of President Lyndon Johnson. She also worked for the Small Business Administration, and she talks about the advice she gives small businesspeople who approach the SBA for loans, and notes several successful African American businesspeople in Louisville.

Using the search terms Urban Renewal Development Plan, I got over 30,000 hits with references back the 18th century! wow! So, then I added in the dates 1964-01-01 to 1967-01-01 and got 34 hits... now that's more like it!

An interesting article concerning whether to keep the "Colored Notes" section in Lexington's papers written in 1964. 

Gov. Martha Layne Collins "She not only turned out to be a strong governor but also was a real mentor to the many young women who saw her as a role model and are now today in public service. I count myself among them."

Governor's School for the Arts article is insightful to her community action profile, a continuance of her roots as a school teacher in the civil rights era.

Affirmative Action

We never looked to see how affirmative action may have helped women in the workplace and in education since this policy did take place in 1965 and this is all around the period we are studying

Short history of the Smith and Smith funeral home in the MLKjr. Neighborhood

I've added a sticky note... wondering about the connections among the various urban communities in which this business has grown

This the offical website for the group and explains the mission and the values of the group as a whole. It also offers history on the creation of the group and what the group is currently involved with today. I found it extremely intresting that a Kentucky women born before women had the right to vote could make such a huge impact not only on a state level or a nation wide level, but on an international level, like Lena Phillips was able to accomplish in her lifetime.