KY women and civil rights history

This site as it says is Maintained by EKU's English department. It gives small biography's but even better every bio has an excellent list of sources. This could be a good starting point for research.

The Restoration Movement was more than just introduction of a instrument to signing during worship. More information is in the pdf files I can't highlight from the church web site.

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. 

This is the transcript of an interview done with Georgia Powers, Kentucky's first female African American Senator. This is also an excellent piece if anyone wants to include oral history into their project and also makes a great primary source.

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 is the State agency website celebrating great human rights activists. This page in particular celebrates Dr. Mary Britton, a prominent woman not only in civil rights, but also medicine and anti-lynching and segregation laws. She was the first female African American physician in Lexington and was a powerful influence for the State of Kentucky. She was active in the Woman's Improvement Club.

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 is a biography of Mae Street Kidd that looks substantial right now, but it does say not to cite due to lack of resources. The solution could be solved if they were to cite the "Passing for Black" book. Let me know if you think that this website would be informational to the rest of the group.

Good to use as a resource since many of the items include summaries of 20th century Kentucky women's 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.)

This is a list of projects for collaborators in Digital Humanities - let's add the KYwCRh.org

A nice list of Kentucky Women artists from the beginning of the Civil Rights Era through the present. If anyone should find this useful, the list comprises at least 48 diffrent female artists from Kentucky, some of whom have had experinces and involvement in the Civil Rights Era and have incorporated these feelings and ideas into their artwork.

Why am i researching movements in the church? For me it's a way to get inside and understand opinions of the time, since it was not my lifetime. I'm considering some social/civil opinions to be influenced by which church you belonged to or creed followed.

Betsy Brinson, Civil Rights in KY project director for KY Oral HIstory Commission, interviewed Audrey Grevious of Lexington at her home in Fayette County, April 13, 1999. A powerful storyteller and great educator, Grevious is generous in her oral history interview though she tries to downplay the fact that she played a major role in the local civil rights movement here in central Kentucky. From KHS catalog "Audrey Grevious speaks of her early education in Black schools which led her to become a teacher. She also became an activist, and, as President of the Lexington NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) together with Julia Lewis, President of Lexington CORE (Congress on Racial Equality) led a movement to challenge segregation in employment, and public accommodations. She notes the involvement of maids and non-profession people and the scarcity of ministers, with the exception of Rev. W.A. Jones, Historic Pleasant Green Baptist Church. When school integration came to Lexington, she tells how the Black students and teachers lost out."

Students from the school were dancers for this 1933 Pageant.

The link isn't working. Maybe the site has moved.

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.

This is a beautiful spot that in the 1820s-30s was considered to be on the edge of the town - now part of the Martin Luther King Neighborhood - and was opened to accommodate the huge numbers of Lexington residents who died in the cholera plagues of 1833 & 1849. The Episcopal Woman's Club restored the grounds and the historic Sexton's Cottage after WWII when many preservation efforts began to be more aggressive in saving the early landscapes in and around Lexington.

This is a book solely devoted to black woman as indicated by the title Notable Black American Woman. It was written by Jessie Carney Smith. Though the book contains short bios about woman from all across american there are several just about Kentucky woman.

An commemorative article about Lucy Harth Smith detailing all the work she did in Kentucky in the field of promoting black history and in education. The whole article can be accessed through Jstor.