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US History/Eisenhower Civil Rights Fifties - Wikibooks, open books for an open world - 0 views

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      This section is extremely relevant to the Jennie Wilson oral history interview. It supports the inequality and complications despite legal desegregation in schools.
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Helen Caise Wade - Woman who broke color barrier visits Rosa Parks Elementary School - 0 views

  • 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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    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.
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"Wade, Helen Cary Caise" Notable Kentucky African Americans Database - 0 views

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    Douglass High School student took Lafayette High School history class in summer of 1955
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Notable Kentucky African Americans - - 4 views

  • She was one of the first African American woman from Kentucky to enlist during World War II, the first to become an officer, and the first African American WAC over an all-white regiment. Clarke led the protest that desegregated the Douglas Army Airfield theater.
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    Here's a compilation of many different resources on Kentucky woment during World War II. Needs exploring by the class very interesting.
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    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!
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    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.
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  • Clarke, Anna Mac (1919-1944) - Led the protest to desegregate the Douglas Army Airfield theater.
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Edward T. Breathitt - 0 views

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    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.
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400 Arrested in Kentucky Riots - 0 views

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    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.
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ACMHR - Alabama Christians Movement for Human Rights - 0 views

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    On June 1, 1956 all NAACP offices were forced to shut down in Alabama so a new organization was needed in Birmingham and throuhgout the southern state. The organization ran by a minister, focused on getting black police officers in Alabama, desgregation of the public schools and was associated by SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference).
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americanwiki / Segregated Libraries - 0 views

  • Carnegie and Bertram never insisted on desegregated libraries or that communities accept and maintain separate branches for blacks, but they did attempt to make communities clearly set their own policies, so they could act accordingly"(Carnegie 36).  "Carnegie and Betram tried to compute grant amounts according to the number of people permitted to use them"(Carnegie 32).  This created a complication in southern communities where libraries were segregated.  If the number of likely library users included blacks in the community, Carnegie wanted the assurance that blacks would be allowed to use the library.
  • At the ALA midwinter meeting of 1961 an amendment was made to the library bill of rights.  "The right of an individual to the use of a library should not be denied or abridged because of his race, religion national origins, or political views."  Although the ALA officially supported integration, many felt the ALA was too complicit in library segregation. 
  • Public libraries were sometimes battleground sites in the civil rights movement.
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  • Nine Negro students of Tougaloo Christian College, near Jackson, Mississipi were fined $100 each and given 30-day suspended sentences on March 29 for participating in Missippi's first "study-in" at the city's main public library which is for whites only.  The nine students had been arrested when they went to library shortly before noon on Monday, March 27, and refused to leave when ordered out by police officers" (75).  "At the city jail the students said they had been unable to obtain materials they needed in libraries open to Negroes and had therefore gone to the main library"(75). 
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    A journal entry about the segregation of libraries. It includes pictures from a Louisville library at the bottom. 
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