Let's work on this grant!

New Page is UP!!!! Let me know if you need corrections/edits.

"hostility, invisibility and the feeling of being an outsider are still realities for many undergraduate and graduate women" - crazy since females now outnumber males, but proportional representation does not tell us about women's lives lived.

Would this union be interested in the history of women in Kentucky?

Powers turned her attention to her family genealogy, trying to find out more about her great-aunt Celia Mudd, who was born into slavery but eventually inherited the rural Kentucky farm in Nelson County on which she spent all her life. Powers found a 1902 will in which Sam Lancaster, whose father had bought the farm, left all 500 acres to Georgia's Aunt Celia. Lancaster's surviving brother sued and the case went to Kentucky's highest court, yet most newspapers declined to report about it. After winning the case Celia Mudd become a local philanthropist. Powers wrote up this family history as a novel.

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 needs fixing!!! Sad that it is a wiki-orphan! and no other sources besides her memoir ~ surely we can do better for the Senator than this.

SPEECH OF HON. JOHN A. YARMUTH OF KENTUCKY IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010 celebrating Senator Powers' expressway in Louisville

Sociological study of the history and impact of the ideas of participatory democracy - emphasizing the strategic components of this leadership approach: builds trust among members, leads to better and more innovative decisions, develops leaders among those whose perspectives have been systematically devalued, effects change without reproducing the very socio-political structures that it fights. The strategies for participatory decision-making comes out of the 1930s legacy of the great American educator, John Dewey - both Ella Baker and Miles Horton were trained at Brookwood Labor College in Katonah, New York. Established leaders are often uncomfortable with real, democratic decisionmaking since it fundamentally challenges implicit hierarchies.

Wonderful description of the importance of the Highlander trainings and Septima Clark's emphasis on involving the people for whom the fight for social justice most affected (not just influencing those around them or persuading others on their behalf). The NAACP's Crusade for Citizenship in the late 1950s with the organizational skills of Ella Baker showed this kind of work could be done in the deep South, but needed more cross-organizational support infrastructures to stave off the violent reactions of segregationists. The greatest impact would have to happen at the local grassroots levels -. and this meant empowerment of local leaders.

Some terrific reports here for those of you still searching for resources for your encyclopedia entries.

Very cool open knowledge initiative focusing on history of women in Nebraska in the Gilded Age.

Great article by Ewa McGrail (Georgia State) and J. Patrick McGrail (Jacksonville State) about publishing with Web 2.0 tools such as our kywcrh.org Wordpress or the Lexington' East End Oral History videos posted on YouTube.

This is a terrific program - and New York City is a wonderland for historians!

I would like to submit all of your names as original authors of the History of Kentucky Women in the Civil Rights Era community outreach and open knowledge initiative (http://www.kywcrh.org) - please let me know if you do not wish your name to be included as a founding author. Here's the call: "If you are involved in a women's history website or web exhibit, online oral history initiative, podcast, blog, or other type of digital project and would like it featured in the Lab, please contact Kate Freedman (kfreedma@history.umass.edu). The submissions for the Digital History Lab should include the following (please submit your proposal in PDF format) : - A 300-words abstract describing the project - A brief 1 page CV containing your name, affiliation, contact information - A list of the requirements in order for your project to be viewed (these include but are not limited to OS, Applications, additional equipment) Kate Freedman Department of History University of Massachusetts kfreedma@history.umass.edu Email: kfreedma@history.umass.edu Visit the website at http://blogs.umass.edu/berks/cfp/"

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

A series of history class projects at Kenyon College spread over 6 years (1997-2000 and 2001-2004), this site displays what the students found out about the early 20th century migration of Southern black families from South Carolina, Mississippii and Alabama to the north and mid-west.

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.