KY women and civil rights history

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.

This article is written by Nancy O'Malley, a UK archeologist who uncovered many details of Kinkeadtown(MLK Neighborhood) that were left out of the history books. She desribes the layout of the neigborhood, the scoial and economic dynamic between blacks and whites, and the women of the households within the neighborhood itself.

this essay describes the different approaches in which women have been recorded in history.

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.

Map of MLK neighborhood Lexington Ky

This would be great for understanding what kenrucky women when through to gain their civil right and how is Berry's experience on Deweese st as a child connect with present day residence in Lexington

HUGE list of web links for KY Woman's Clubs

Had I found this sooner I would have joined. My reason for posting this is to show that the Midway Woman's Club is still very active and affiliated with Midway College.

a great collection of women through out kentuckys history

I know this already happened, but this site discuss some history of Kentucky women and the idea that women's history needs to be recorded and spread, espically history prior to 1970. It goes into some detail about how schools around the nation are begining to increase the importance of womens history and support the research that will create more womens history.

This website offers basic information in regards to the neighborhood. the site contains information on a project designed to refurbish and renovate many of the historical buildings in the old Lexington neighborhood.

This resource is devoted to "Women Writers and Artist of color". This is similar to what our class is doing just with a wider national scope.

The various and different works that are provided from the website are both enlightening and interesting. The fact that a database now exists with such a wide variety of published material from women of all races and backgrounds in one place is cool to know about and explore.