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Edward T. Breathitt - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Edward_T._Breathitt civil rights
shared by Syle Khaw on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Syle Khaw on 13 Oct 10
     
    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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Women in Kentucky - 1 views

www.womeninkentucky.com/archives.html Kentucky Women
shared by Syle Khaw on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Syle Khaw on 06 Oct 10
     
    a great collection of women through out kentuckys history
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Kentucky Orphan School - 2 views

easternkentuckygenealogy.blogspot.com/...history-month-remembering.html Kentucky Orphan School
shared by Syle Khaw on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Syle Khaw on 29 Sep 10
     
    Something for my service learning project group to take a look at. Elizabeth Littlejohn Turner Martin attended the Kentucky Orphan School and was honored this year during Women's History Month
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Citizenship; a Manual for Voters, by Emma Guy Cromwell. - 24 views

www.gutenberg.org/...25598-h.htm
shared by flamenco clap on 07 Sep 10 - Cached
  • a sponger, a coward and a shirker
    • Syle Khaw
      Syle Khaw on 10 Sep 10
       
      Cromwell shows that being a good citizen is part of your moral core and noone would want to be accused of being lazy or bad because it's an insult.
  • Copyright 1920
  • Copyright 1920
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  • have the vote and let us not only count it a privilege but a duty to do our part as citizens in establishing good
  • good government
  • government
  • government
  • government.
  • no state constitution can conflict with our Federal Constitution
  • The Federal Constitution may be amended by two-thirds vote of each House of Congress, and if passed must be referred to the state legislatures for ratification
  • no law will stand in our courts that is in violation of our National Constitution.
    • Syle Khaw
      Syle Khaw on 13 Sep 10
       
      this shows complete faith in our National Constitution
  • Syle Khaw on 10 Sep 10
     
    A Kentucky woman politician, the first state librarian, and first woman to be appointed to a statewide public office in Kentucky - takes it upon herself to write a how-to manual ... just like all the cookbooks and how to get an education and other womanly things that a New Woman in the 1920s should educate themselves about.
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