KY women and civil rights history

The sign that is on the front of Pinkerton Hall today, At Midway College

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.

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.

I found this very interesting based on the work and continued committment to educate both women and men in the state of Kentucky about voting.

This link is where your terrific research journal entries reside - invite your community members to sign up and join the site so they can participate in the process... and keep it going after the semester is over!

This article highlights a truly unique place. I looked up some information about the subdivision and was delighted to know that it has virtually remained intact. Here are some statistics on the neighborhood: http://www.city-data.com/neighborhood/Oakwood-Lexington-KY.html

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

Since I just came back from active duty, I found this biography of Lt. Anna Mac Clarke very interesting. She was an African American woman born in Lawrenceburg, KY and was the first female, African American female, to be specific, to command an all-white unit. I feel that this brief article not only demonstrates the magnitude of such an accomplishment, but that it also provides wonderful insight about a topic that deserves much more attention: women in the military. With both the historical background and significance of this article, I think others will find it just as useful.

This article is very interesting. It is hard to believe that an African American women who led an all white group of troops late in her military career was subject to swimming in the pool at her base camp in Iowa only for one hour a week on fridays, after the pool was sanitized. Lt. Clarke had to be a strong willed women who was constantly challenged in her military life due to the fact of being black and a women. The majority of the army being white men, this race and gender issue must of been a challenge each and everyday.

A very helpful timeline to put things into reference. From 1838 all the way to 1999. 

A short bio of Emma Guy Cromwell

Dated 1853, this is a very powerful source of information. What was a suffrage woman's source of encouragement and empowerment?

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

This should not only be gutted but read to remind us of our civic duties and responsibilities

The M.I. King Library has already preserved some oral histories pertaining to Lexington's black churches during the civil rights movement: Harry Sykes: "Sykes recalls church involvement in the civil rights marches in Lexington and discusses his chairmanship of the Commission on Religion and Human Rights in the early 1960s." Robert Jefferson: "He details the role of the African American church in the community and during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and discusses his rejection of the non-violent faction of the movement." Albert Lee: "Reverend Lee discusses the role of the church in the African American community and the effects of segregation in Lexington." etc. There are tons of relevant interviews to be explored, most conducted with reverends. I only see ONE interview conducted with a woman about churches and the civil rights movement, perhaps a hole we could fill?

Very long list of important women activists organized alphabetically. Not only KY women though.

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.

Part of a larger article posted on an ultra-rightwing website... note the links back to Stormfront.org - one of the oldest continuing online discussion forums for neo-Confederates, neo-fascists, Christian identity hate groups and other ultra-conservatives. This page shows a picture of King in the company of "subversives" such as this one that the New Orleans police took when they raided SCEF offices - the notations on this MLKjr website include citations from the Congressional Record where the descriptions of the Bradens and SCEF as "communist" and advocating class/race warfare can be found

Powers turned her attention to her family genealogy, trying to find out more about her great-aunt Celia Mudd, who was born into slavery but eventually inherited the rural Kentucky farm in Nelson County on which she spent all her life. Powers found a 1902 will in which Sam Lancaster, whose father had bought the farm, left all 500 acres to Georgia's Aunt Celia. Lancaster's surviving brother sued and the case went to Kentucky's highest court, yet most newspapers declined to report about it. After winning the case Celia Mudd become a local philanthropist. Powers wrote up this family history as a novel.

Go to the Kentucky Room of the Central Branch of the Lexington Public Library (on Main Street) to find these City Directories. Some really interesting information to find there!

Great post. I have found some material that I might be able to use just from clicking this link

This link will provide a way to read the journal article written by Kentucky's own Elizabeth Hardwick, a prominent female writer born in Lexington whose dissection and insight to literature and the scholarly world provided an avenue for all women to follow in her footsteps.