Includes biographical information on Sheriff Thompson; this is a digital reproduction of a 1992 book of the same name
See Library of Congress Catalog Record: http://lccn.loc.gov/92091052
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.
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.
A review of _The Maid Narratives_ by Aaron W. Hughey, Department of Counseling and Student Affairs, Western Kentucky University. members of the local community. He points out the Bowling Green connection: attorney Flora Templeton Stuart (van Wormer's sister) who tells of her memory of Kentuckian Celestine Holmes. Called "Teen," Holmes was her nanny when Stuart grew up in New Orleans in the 1950s.
Great article showing how Rosa Parks "the first lady of civil rights" and the "mother of the freedom movement" grew to become the great leader she was at the national level by starting from the personal - and at the local level. How many women in Kentucky learned from her when they met her at the Highland Center or at regional or national conventions?
Kentucky report by Laura Clay does not include anything about the Covington Colored Organization mentioned by Eugenia Farmer in 1894 convention of KERA. Also no mention of Farmer speaking on school suffrage at the Colored Methodist Church of Covington