KY women and civil rights history

This is an article from the New York times describing the riots that occurred in Lousiville due to the desegregation of its local schools. These riots happened in 1975, more than 20 years after the famous Brown vs. Board of Education court case which ended segregation in schools.

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.

July 4, 2004 By Linda Blackford & Linda Minch, Herald-Leader Highlighting decisions by Fred Wachs and Bill Hanna on whether or not to cover the CRM in the Lexington Herald and the Lexington Leader

Husted Harper, 1922

includes listings such as Betty Shabazz, Freedom Riders, Benjamin Hooks (his mother and aunt were from Kentucky), White Supremacist Groups

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A potential resource

"College campuses host large concentrations of young women who are at greater risk for rape and other forms of sexual assault than women in the general population or in a comparable age group. Based on their findings, Bonnie Fisher and her colleagues estimate that the women at a college that has 10,000 female students could experience more than 350 rapes a year- a finding with serious policy implications for college administrators."

journalist, community activist and political leader in Nevada - born in KY

This gives a vague overview for people who want to learn some intresting facts about this amazing women from Kentucky and the things she was able to accomplish during her time as a senator for 21 years in Kentucky.

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.

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.

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

This is the interview of Mrs. Powers and is extremely beneficial to our study of her. I think she was one of the most influential women of all time. She was able to influence and change so many lives in Kentucky and through out the south.

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.

Time of the civil rights movement in Kentucky