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Randolph Hollingsworth

MicroAggressions and Campus Climates - Assoc of Am Colleges and Universities - 2 views

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    "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.
charlie v

The University of Louisville's Women's Center - 0 views

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    I really liked what the University of Louisville was doing to try to impower the lives of the women students and the women living in Jefferson County. The goal of the Women's Center is to promote equality between men and women, increase the self reliance of women and to display and demonstrate everything that women do for society. The goal is to change the mindset of both men and women who are living in a different era and to show that women are capable of accomplishing anything that a man is capable of accomplishing.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Regina A. Harris Baiocchi - Video Oral History Interview - The HistoryMakers - 0 views

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    5 videos - Baiocchi discusses her family's roots in the American South--specifically, Kentucky and Tennessee. Her father and mother migrated north to Chicago in search of better vocational opportunities and fewer racist encounters. Seven siblings--four sisters and three brothers. Baiocchi tells stories of her grandparents' lives in the racist American South.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Crowd of nearly 10,000 gathered at civil rights event in Lexington in 1867 | Neighbors | Kentucky.com - 0 views

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    Tom Law, project director of the Kentucky Archaeology & Heritage Series, said he uncovered these details while doing research for Davis Bottom: Rare History, Valuable Lives, the sixth episode in the Kentucky Archaeology & Heritage documentary series, which premiered last fall.
Randolph Hollingsworth

KET | Living the Story | Jennie Hopkins Wilson - 3 views

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    Powerful video about a woman who lived during the violence of segregation and how everyday activities we take for granted today took great courage then. For more information about this time period in Kentucky's history, see George C. Wright's ground-breaking book _Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings."
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    This KET video will serve as the focus for the first of the UK AASRP Race Dialogues (www.uky.edu/AS/AASRP) held in the UK Student Center on Sept 16th 4:30-6 p.m.
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    The video on jennie and Alice Wilson is a powerful example of how standing up for what you believe in is the best thing a person can do. Jennie is a strong woman because of her childhood. Seeing her parents as slaves and as free people made an impression on her. This impression made her srong enough to raise foour children in Kentucky during segregation and send all four of them to college. Alice was strong enough to integrate into mayfield high school with 9 other children at the age of fourteen when no other black students would. After integrating she dealt with vocal abuse from white classmates, but never retaliated physically or vocally in a negative manner. Alice simply continued on with the importantt things in her life, the completion of school and the hopes of continuing onward to college.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Jennie Wilson - KHS, Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky - 2 views

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    This site hosted by the Kentucky Historical Society was created by oral historian and archivist Doug Boyd (now at the University of Kentucky) - it offers open access to the transcripts and the video clips of the original interview of Jennie Wilson. The video clips were then edited and used within the KET production, "Living the Story" - see that version at http://www.ket.org/civilrights/bio_jwilson.htm
aplatonic 3

This Months Issue - KentuckyLiving Magazine - Kentucky Living - 0 views

  • According to the last known history of the Kentucky Female Orphan School, written by Harry Giovannoli and published in 1930: “…for a long period prior to 1850, when a well-planned common school system was inaugurated, and in fact for many years afterward in remote sections of the State, thousands of children capable of becoming part and parcel of the bone and sinew of the Commonwealth were denied the poorest educational advantages.”
  • Females were routinely excluded and orphan girls had virtually no hope of breaking through the social barriers until the arrival of Lewis Letig Pinkerton—“the young physician, evangelist, and educator, who had surrendered promises of a brilliant professional career in another State to come to Kentucky…to preach the unsearchable blessings of the gospel to rich and poor alike.”
  • Rev. Pinkerton, minister at Midway’s first Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), dared to dream a dream of reaching out to female orphans to prepare them mainly for careers as teachers, heretofore underpaid and all too often poorly prepared. Rev. Pinkerton and other residents of the little town of Midway and Woodford County successfully waged the campaign to raise the initial funds to meet a challenge that would inspire others for the next 157 years.
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  • There’s a tradition at graduation, which connects the generations. Candles are lit and floated along Lee Branch, the little stream at the foot of Mount Hope. All those whose candles remain lighted and pass beneath the little bridge on the Pathway to Opportunity will have their wishes granted.The symbolism is important, but the reality lies in hard work, inspired administration, and a Commonwealth that understands true value.The Midway College tradition is as bright as a lighted candle for all those who strive for excellence, fountain for larger streams.
aplatonic 3

Midway Living History Day 2009 - 0 views

  • Herman Farrell, assistant professor of theater at UK and a Midway resident, introduced the reading of the 1933 Midway Pageant. Brenda Jackson (left) read the parts of Chroniclers #VII and VIII. Her mother, Cora Emma Washington, played the role of the 'Spirit of the Past'.
  • Brenda Jackson (left) read the parts of Chroniclers #VII and VIII. Her mother, Cora Emma Washington, played the role of the 'Spirit of the Past'.
  • Helen Rentch (left), as the 'Spirit of Midway', prepares to pass the torch to the 'Spirit of the Future'. Also appearing here - Leslie Penn, Pam Thomas, Blythe Jamieson, Phil Dare, and Cora Emma Washington, the 'Spirit of the Past'.
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  • Betty Ann Voigt pays tribute to her best friend.
  • Miss Parrish is a pioneer in women’s sports and the author of “Outstanding Kentucky Women in Sports”. She was inducted into the Centre College Sports Hall of Fame in 1941. She was a faculty member and coach at Midway College for nearly 40 years. The College’s most prestigious annual athletics award is named the “Margaret Ware Parrish Athletic Award”
  • Brenda Jackson shows Bob Rathbone pictures from the three African-American churches in Midway. Brenda also showed photographs and documents from Midway's African-American schools.
  • Helen Rentch (seated) shares her collection from Parrish Hill Farm with Nancy Dare.
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    Here are some pictures of a few people that I have been given contact information. Miss Parrish past October 1st, 2010. She was the great grand daughter of co-founder of the Kentucky Female Orphan School James Parrish.
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    The 2010 Midway Living History Day is Sat. October 30th from noon to 4:30pm.
aplatonic 3

The Black Commentator - Freedom Rider: No Civil Rights in Kentucky - Issue 100 - 1 views

  • The city’s two daily newspapers, the Herald and the Leader, worked hand in hand with respected pillars of the community and decided to ignore the revolution. The press took their orders from the powerful and didn’t report one of the biggest news stories in American history. Lexington had demonstrations, sit-ins and other protests, but the papers didn’t acknowledge their complicity in telling a lie until earlier this month.
  • The white citizenry of Lexington decided that pretense was preferable to the truth and chose not to point out the elephant in the living room. “Good” white people like Fred Wachs, general manager and publisher of both newspapers, said they wanted change, but didn’t think that anyone demanding it was worthy of an expenditure of newsprint.
  • The godfathers of Lexington told people where they could and could not live, and could and could not work, and could and could not go to school and yet were not labeled rabble rousers. That honor fell on those who risked death, injury and loss of livelihood to demand a just society.
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  • Of course there was another very simple reason to deny the existence of the movement in Lexington and other cities. The lack of coverage discouraged activism. Many more people would have been galvanized by the courage of Audrey Ross Grevious and thousands of others.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Adapting to an Industrial Society > Merging Separate Spheres - 7 views

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    This site offers some good information of the time Emma Guy Cromwell lived.
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    It gave a better frame of reference to put things in perspective.
charlie v

Emma Guy Cromwell - 15 views

Cromwell was a woman and a mother before she became a state wide figure for women, due to her political accomplishments. She was quoted for saying that women should be content living the married li...

Cromwell history women suffragist politician Kentucky

charlie v

History of Science Hill - 2 views

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    Julia Tevis started a school in Shelbyville to teach women who were living in wilderness area. This is a good site for history about Shelbyville and the impact that one women can make on hundreds of young women educationally.
tiger lily

Laura Clay - 3 views

  • Lexington's Sayre School
  • an unusually powerful position for a southern girl in the 1860's when any woman demonstrating intellect was considered a "bluestocking" doomed to spinsterhood.
  • Their resulting divorce in 1878 was the turning point in all of the Clay women's lives. According to laws at the time, a woman held no claim to house or property
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  • the Clay women turned to the equalizing of women's rights.
  • Laura decided to lease White Hall from her father
  • She then collaborated with Susan B. Anthony to organize suffrage societies across the Commonwealth
  • During this same period, Clay became the best-known southern suffragist and the South's leading voice in the councils of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). While chair of the association's membership committee, she introduced recruiting innovations that almost tripled the number of members, from 17,000 in 1905 to 45,501 in 1907, and succeeded in establishing associations in nine southern states.
  • Clay was an emancipationist; one who believed that it was up to each state to grant freedom/rights to citizens
  • Clay was also a believer in Anglo-Saxon superiority but was paternalistic in her attitudes. A product of her time and region, this hearkening back to Southern pre-Civil War beliefs caused some critics to castigate her as a racist.
  • She also worked to promote the involvement of women in politics, advocating that women not silently accept the party affiliation of their husbands, but instead form and act upon their own beliefs.
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    The beginning of this article is a great biography. The best part of this piece was being able to find out more about her positions on states rights and whether she believed in civil rights for blacks as well. Clay was a major supporter of states rights. In all that she did for women's rights ( a list is given at the end) Clay was not an advocate for the rights of African Americans. 
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    I found it unique that Laura Clay began to pursue womens equal rights after her parents seperated. Her mother took care of the White Hall estate for 45 years and then was all the sudden homeless because the property belonged to the father according to the laws that prevented women from owning land. This left Laura and her sisters to pursue the equality of women. She was also responsible for creating the Kentucky Equal Rights Organization with the help of Susan B. Anthony.
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    This site has a short but very informative biography of Laura Clay. Along with a biography it list all of her monumental accomplishment fighting for equal rights. The site is full of pictures of Laura Clay and is very well documented with numerous sources citing the information.
charlie v

Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame - 1 views

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    This website shows information on people who went to extreme links to spread their ideas of gender fairness and civil rights activism
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    This site seems very useful for anyone who is conducting research on any of the people listed here. Many seem to be still living and this could be used as a primary resource if you can contact them and set up an interview.
tiger lily

Article about Temperance from the Temperance era - 0 views

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    This is an article from the New York Times in 1907. It is interesting to see what would have been published about prohibition by the people of that time mostly we read articles written about prohibition 20 years or 50 years later. It has raciest tones to it which is sad but unfortunately was part of many people's lives during this time.
aplatonic 3

President's Message - 0 views

  • President Handley laid before us a challenging vision: "Enhance the opportunities for women in mathematics, science, and technology through the construction of a state of the art Mathematics, Science, and Technology Center, and enhance our service to adults seeking accelerated degree completion programs."
  • Throughout the life of this institution one question has remained and ultimately been asked of each generation. The question, answered differently through the years, is
  • "How can we best meet the needs of women in Kentucky through education?"
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  • We are a diverse institution poised to deepen our mission of service to underserved women and men in Kentucky.
  • Moreover, it is appropriate today to remember as well the generations of young women and now men who have sought better lives under instruction from capable, caring faculty. A legacy of caring at Midway College is personified in our third century of service by many of our employees. Over the course of the last four years Dr. Handley and I have been privileged to meet many of our graduates both near and far. I recall one such meeting with a brilliant woman on the West Coast who graduated from here several decades ago when the school was operating as the Kentucky Female Orphan School. I remember thinking, this woman must have left Midway and pursued a Bachelor's degree and then on in academe. But no she hadn't. She left here upon completion of grade 12. Here she had been exposed to the best of literature, and was required to take advanced instruction in mathematics, and composition. Midway faculty worked diligently to prepare women such as she because they had no safety net other than their ability to think. We serve many students in this same circumstance today and our faculty is just as diligent and committed as they were the past two centuries. To all of our alumni, I say we will keep the faith, and require much of our students academically. We will also strive to engender character, character that counts and give expression in servanthood to humanity. We will retain the character of our pedagogy as a Women's College while continuing to expand our accelerated degree programs for adults.
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    I think our group project is going to find our service learning mission within this letter.
One Ton

Famous Friends - 1 views

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    List of people who spent part of their lives in the state of Kentucky.
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