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Ua1b2/1 A Commemoration Of Wku's Integration: 1956-2006, Howard Bailey, Monica G. Burke, John Hardin, Sherese Martin, Maxine Ray, C. J. Woods Nov 2016

Ua1b2/1 A Commemoration Of Wku's Integration: 1956-2006, Howard Bailey, Monica G. Burke, John Hardin, Sherese Martin, Maxine Ray, C. J. Woods

Monica Burke

A publication that chronicles the history of WKU's desegregation efforts. This commemorative publication is also an historical document that highlights the prolific accomplishments of WKU African American graduates. The impact of Western's spirit on countless African American graduates and the Bowling Green community unfolds in the pages that follow. The joy of having access to an education, the struggles of transforming an institutional climate, the kindness of WKU faculty, staff, and students and the rewards of walking across the stage in Diddle arena are chronicled by those who experienced it firsthand.


Fighting For Recognition: The Role African Americans Played In World Fairs, Andrew R. Valint Mar 2012

Fighting For Recognition: The Role African Americans Played In World Fairs, Andrew R. Valint

Andrew Valint

ABSTRACT OF THESIS Fighting for Recognition The Role African Americans played in World Fairs In the years following the Civil War African Americans were locked in a struggle for equality. Persevering through racism and the institution of Jim Crow laws, African Americans made advancements socially, economically, politically, and educationally. As the U.S. ushered in the dawn of the 20th century, World Fairs became the altar on which blacks could showcase their progress since Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. From the 1889 fair in Paris to Buffalo’s Pan American Exposition of 1901 African Americans fought for a ‘Negro Exhibit’ to factually portray …


Swept Under The Rug? A Historiography Of Gender And Black Colleges, Marybeth Gasman Mar 2012

Swept Under The Rug? A Historiography Of Gender And Black Colleges, Marybeth Gasman

Marybeth Gasman

This historiography of gender and black colleges uncovers the omission of women and gender relations. It uses an integrative framework, conceptualized by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, that considers race and gender as mutually interconnected, revealing different results than might be seen by considering these issues independently. The article is significant for historians and nonhistorians alike and has implications for educational policy and practice in the current day.


African Architectural Transference To The South Carolina Low Country, 1700-1880, Fritz Hamer Nov 2011

African Architectural Transference To The South Carolina Low Country, 1700-1880, Fritz Hamer

Fritz Hamer

There is growing historical and archaeological evidence that African style housing was an integral part of slave communities on plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Besides the "shotgun" house, other African house forms were built in North America before descendants of African slaves became acculturated to western construction techniques. The rarity of historical and archaeological evidence of these structures can be attributed to the culture bias of early white observers and the poor preservation of these impermanent structures in the archaeological record.


World War Ii Memory In The Palmetto State Vs. South Carolina's Civil War Legacy, Fritz Hamer Nov 2011

World War Ii Memory In The Palmetto State Vs. South Carolina's Civil War Legacy, Fritz Hamer

Fritz Hamer

Presented at the workshop, Generational Memories of World War II: An International Perspective, held November 9-10, 2007 by the Center for the Study of History and Memory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.


American Women Physicians In 2000: A History In Progress, Ellen S. More, Marilyn Greer Mar 2008

American Women Physicians In 2000: A History In Progress, Ellen S. More, Marilyn Greer

Ellen S. More

This article surveys major trends in the history of women physicians in American medicine during the 20th century, noting especially factors that have elicited renewed and increasingly public attention during the past two decades. These include the challenges of achieving greater professional visibility while also balancing family and career, of sustaining women physicians' legacy of commitment to women's health and primary care medicine without reinforcing the traditional stereotype that these are the specialties "best suited" to women doctors, and of addressing the need for more ethnic and racial diversity in the medical profession. Other recent developments include the leveling off …