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Fighting For Fairness: The History Of Kentucky’S Local Movements To Enact Fairness Ordinances In 1999, Micah Bennett
Fighting For Fairness: The History Of Kentucky’S Local Movements To Enact Fairness Ordinances In 1999, Micah Bennett
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
This CE/T project explores the histories of the local movements for fairness ordinances which transpired in Kentucky in the year 1999. Fairness ordinances expand local civil rights protections on the basis of ‘sexual orientation’ and sometimes ‘gender identity’ to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) peoples and usually protect in the areas of employment, housing, and public accommodations. Four communities in the state considered such laws in 1999: Greater Louisville, Lexington-Fayette, the City of Henderson, and the City of Bowling Green. This thesis takes a holistic approach towards the history of these movements, exploring the procession of chronological events, …
Bowling Green, Kentucky - City Council (Mss 276), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green, Kentucky - City Council (Mss 276), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 276. Minute books of Bowling Green, Kentucky Board of Councilmen (1948-1967), Board of Aldermen (1952-1967), and Board of Commissioners (1967-1987).
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 79), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945 (Sc 79), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 79. Letter, 21 November 1932, written by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Martha Washington Jackson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which expresses his thanks for her loyalty to the Democratic party; also notes given on the history of Bowling Green by Jackson.