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Full access to this site can be reached through the UK libraries database search.

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/"

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.

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.

This article on Rosa Parks was conducted in 1996, many years after her role in the civil rights movement. She talks about her role in the movement and the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. She also reflects on the changes in our country since that period in time. Mrs. Parks still believes that many things are still in need of change to become the great country that the United States could one day be. She says that more young children need to be exposed to what the civil rights movement was like. I chose to write about this article because Mrs. Parks had such a big influence in the civil rights movement and started the Montgomery bus boycott. December first is also the 55th anniversary of when Mrs. Parks refused to get out of her seat and started a revolution of organized resistance in the civil rights movement. What she did led to many other things such as, sit-ins, marches, and her action opened the civil rights movement up for more people to be a part of it. My opinion of this article is that it shows that there was more to the story of Rosa Parks than just a tired woman not willing to give up her seat on a bus. I found this article educational and inspiring, and it also shed a new light on the civil rights movement for me.

This article on Diane Nash was written about Nash receiving the Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum. Nash became the leader of the movement in Nashville and helped organize the sit-ins in Nashville. She was a part of SNCC, SCLC, and the freedom rides. Doctor King even said that Nashville had the best nonviolent movement in the nation. The museum president Beverly Robertson said that women were usually the wives of leaders, but Nash was a leader by herself. I chose to write about this article because Nash was such an influential person in the civil rights movement and helped to open new doors up to many people. She also served as an inspiration for other women that were involved in the movement. Through her hard work and many of her actions during the civil rights movement I believe that Nash was very deserving of this award that was presented to her.

Time of the civil rights movement in Kentucky

A journal entry about the segregation of libraries. It includes pictures from a Louisville library at the bottom. 

In researching the segregation of public libraries, I also found that during the establish of the Carnegie libraries spurred the creation of many women's groups throughout the country in the late 19th century. These women's group have taken off and continued throughout history. 

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. 

Colored Notes (Kentucky) 

Midway Woman's Club participated in community programs offered by the Sears and Roebuck company.

Kroger is still involved with charitable giving to communities like the Midway Woman's Club was awarded.

This book will stir your feeling about what you may think you know about coal. Inside are stories of women who attempted to fight against the coal companies to save their families and homes.

This higly informational book traces the history of higher education of African Americas from the 1800's to present day. It is and exalent resors on the early days during segrigation and intigration of almost every large college in the state.

This is a list of all Notable African American Kentuckians