Interesting article on how gender remains today an important category of analysis in women's political participation and public leadership roles in the US.

A general timeline with big milestones indicated building up to the Greensboro public accommodations protests. The International Civil Rights Center & Museum opened last February on the 50th anniversary of the day the N.C. A&T freshmen refused to leave the whites-only lunch counter -- helping to inspire a national sit-in movement. More information about the museum is online at www.sitinmovement.org For coverage of the museum opening and more articles about the 50th anniversary of the sit-ins, visit www.news-record.com/news/museum

Here's the primary source for information on Bill Dady, a SDS organizer from Atlanta who lived at the Bradens while campaigning against a segregated public pool in Louisville and negotiating with the Kentucky Human Rights Commission.

Section focusing on general history of SDS - a free online US history textbook

This UW prof summarizes this history book that shows the importance of SSOC in educating Southern white students about civil rights - when most civil rights histories have focused on the roles of Southern blacks or Northern whites.

article from the Social Science History Vol. 12, No. 4 (Winter, 1988), pp. 429-449

One of the largest groups of the KKK situated here in Kentucky.

"In addition to nominating segregationist candidates for office, the party demonstrated frequently and sparked or participated in street violence in several states. In St. Augustine, Florida, in 1964, Connie Lynch, the NSRP's "official policy speaker," told a crowd of 800, "I favor violence to preserve the white race....In 1966 Lynch and four other party leaders were convicted and sent to prison for inciting a riot in Baltimore, and killings took place in the wake of NSRP rallies in Alabama in 1965 and in Kentucky in 1968." This organization gained followers from many different kinds of right-wing activists: Klansmen, White Citizens' Councils, conspiratorial anti-Communists and George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party.

tips for history teachers on how 1960s movies show social pressures for anti-communism

Always fun to see the debates about who is "first" or not... ! Has more to do with men's history than women's but you'll get some ideas about women's roles in Baptist Churches in Lexington.

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.

Anne is part of the discussion about the rejection of SCEF from the Southern Inter-Agency Conference - and how they would handle the communications with their sponsoring organizations (YMCA and SNCC). Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, "Minutes, SCEF Board of Directors," April 26, 1963, SCRID# 99-159-0-34-1-1-1ph, Series 2515: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records, 1994-2006, Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

5 interviews with civil rights activists in the early 1980s (Anne Braden, Virginia Foster Durr, Amelia Robinson, Fred Shuttlesworth, Frederick Palmer Weber) who discuss their involvement in the Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund. Some of the main topics include segregation, poverty, legislation, and poll taxes. (Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460.) Braden interview by Linda Reed is 35 pages (90 minutes) - describes the disenfranchisement of Depression Era South and need for worker, economic and civil rights for Black Americans; discusses Congress of Industrial Organizations, House Un-American Activities Committee, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Southern Christian Leadership Conference as well as the structure of the SCEF and the Southern Patriot.

Part of a larger article posted on an ultra-rightwing website... note the links back to Stormfront.org - one of the oldest continuing online discussion forums for neo-Confederates, neo-fascists, Christian identity hate groups and other ultra-conservatives. This page shows a picture of King in the company of "subversives" such as this one that the New Orleans police took when they raided SCEF offices - the notations on this MLKjr website include citations from the Congressional Record where the descriptions of the Bradens and SCEF as "communist" and advocating class/race warfare can be found

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.

http://kdl.kyvl.org/images/knu/1987ph2/2894.jpg Digital ID: KNU-1987PH2-2894 Woodford County, Kentucky. Kentucky Female Orphan School: Many girls at the Kentucky Female Orphan School, Midway, Ky. are daughters of Southern Railway men. In the background are several original buildings of the school which opened in 1849. Date: 1900 - 1954 Creator: Dunn, C. Frank, 1883-1954 Collection Guide: C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection, 1900-1954, bulk 1920-1940. Contributing Institution: Kentucky Historical Society For permissions and copies, contact the Kentucky Historical Society, Imaging Services, (502) 564-1792 ext. 4423. Persistent URL for catalog entry: http://name.kdl.kyvl.org/KNU-1987PH2-2894

Thought this picture might be useful in the project on Female Orphan School to examine issues of class and race in the models of Kentucky womanhood projected from the school administrators for advertising purposes and/or fundraising. The role of the railroad and coal industries in the school could be examined also. Notes from KDL site: Woodford County, Kentucky. Kentucky Female Orphan School: Many girls at the Kentucky Female Orphan School, Midway, Ky. are daughters of Southern Railway men. In the background are several original buildings of the school which opened in 1849. Date: 1900 - 1954.

The opening section of "The Future Well-Being of Women in Kentucky" published in 1999 as a response to the "Report on the Status of Women in Kentucky" - I enjoyed very much the many meetings and conversations with a diverse group of women activists from all over Kentucky that were involved in the making of this report. (NOTE: to progress through this e-book, it works best if you simply change the chapter number in the URL because the hyperlinks among pages are not always consistent.)

Good to use as a resource since many of the items include summaries of 20th century Kentucky women's history

New research report from Isto Huvila of Sweden from user survey seeing to explain the different kinds of Wikipedia users and the quality of their contributions. References to other Wikipedia research are included and summarized to show the scholarly community's growing consensus about its reliability and validity. Refers also to new uses of Wikipedia, e.g., scholary journal requiring authors to post their summaries in Wikipedia.