KY women and civil rights history

Husted Harper, 1922

Dr. Adam Banks, UK Rhetoric professor, will be meeting with Lexington African-American community members to allow for greater access to thoughtful, critical inquiry about crucial topics on race today - not just leave historic images for popular consumption without question but allow some time and space for community dialog on the actual words of MLK Jr, from his own authorship (autobiography). This important learning experience will benefit not only the African-American individuals who go and participate, but also the larger communities in which we all will benefit from a more thoughtful public.

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Kentucky report by Laura Clay does not include anything about the Covington Colored Organization mentioned by Eugenia Farmer in 1894 convention of KERA. Also no mention of Farmer speaking on school suffrage at the Colored Methodist Church of Covington

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.

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.

Time of the civil rights movement in Kentucky

I'm not sure if anyone has trouble with making their citiations, but this particular site is pretty helpful for making sure they are correct. Just plug in your information and it will generate the citation for you.

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.

From here you can find many people who have been inducted into the Kentucky Hall of Fame. This is Dr. Marlatt, who helped start the Lexington chapter of CORE. 

This news announcement has a nice picture that is recent - let's find out iif photos provided by "LRC Public Information" (Legislative Research Council) are in the public domain and we can use it to fix the Wikipedia entry on her.

Would this union be interested in the history of women in Kentucky?

Just found this interesting. Having an urge to break from the time frame of study; I see this as where women find help and empowerment to make change and a difference.

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 website offers information about Mrs. Phillips, a Kentucky graduate who formed a national and then international group or club for the equality of women through business and economic stand points. The group is called the International Federation of Business and Professional Women.

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

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. 

A historically all black church that was built for the black Catholics in Lexington. Because of segregation or racial tendecies held by the majority of white people in Lexington, the black Catholics were not permitted in the two white Catholic churches.