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.
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.
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.
The city’s two daily newspapers, the
Herald and the Leader, worked hand in hand with respected pillars
of the community and decided to ignore the revolution. The press
took their orders from the powerful and didn’t report one of
the biggest news stories in American history. Lexington had demonstrations,
sit-ins and other protests, but the papers didn’t acknowledge
their complicity in telling a lie until earlier this month.
The white citizenry of Lexington decided that pretense was preferable
to the truth and chose not to point out the elephant in the living
room. “Good” white people like Fred Wachs, general manager and
publisher of both newspapers, said they wanted change, but didn’t
think that anyone demanding it was worthy of an expenditure of
newsprint.
The godfathers of Lexington told people
where they could and could not live, and could and could not
work, and could and could not go to school and yet were not labeled
rabble rousers. That honor fell on those who risked death, injury
and loss of livelihood to demand a just society.
Of course there was another very simple
reason to deny the existence of the movement in Lexington and
other cities. The lack of coverage discouraged activism. Many
more people would have been galvanized by the courage of Audrey
Ross Grevious and thousands of others.
Obituary for Betty Friedan, writer of the 1963 book, "The Feminine Mystique" and founder of many important feminist organizations, including the National Women's Political Caucus in the 1970s.
This news announcement has a nice picture that is recent - let's find out iif photos provided by "LRC Public Information" (Legislative Research Council) are in the public domain and we can use it to fix the Wikipedia entry on her.
This is the interview of Mrs. Powers and is extremely beneficial to our study of her. I think she was one of the most influential women of all time. She was able to influence and change so many lives in Kentucky and through out the south.
This gives a vague overview for people who want to learn some intresting facts about this amazing women from Kentucky and the things she was able to accomplish during her time as a senator for 21 years in Kentucky.
A prominent form of voluntary organization in the United States from the nineteenth century through the mid–twentieth century, fraternal associations are self-selecting brotherhoods and sisterhoods that provide mutual aid to members, enact group rituals, and engage in community service.
Synthesizing primary and secondary evidence, this article documents that African Americans historically organized large numbers of translocal fraternal voluntary federations. Some black fraternal associations paralleled white groups, while others were distinctive to African Americans.
In regions where blacks lived in significant numbers, African Americans often created more fraternal lodges per capita than whites; and women played a much more prominent role in African American fraternalism than they did in white fraternalism.
Many southerners did not believe that African Americans should have been allowed to know how to read. When dealing with the racism of southern America and the required segregation, Andrew Carnegie went as far as to build separate Carnegie libraries specifically for African Americans.
After listening to an interview with Hopkinsville native, Odessa Chestine, who said the Carnegie library in Hopkinsville was segregated causing her family to have to buy books instead of being able to check them out from the library, I decided to look further to find if all Carnegie libraries were segregated.