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Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
Ua12/2/33 Black History Month, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History
Ua12/2/33 Black History Month, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History
WKU Archives Records
WKU Black History Month events poster.
Bowling Green Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowling Green Academy - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1233. Letters written to Elizabeth Coombs, of the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, answering her inquiries about the Bowling Green Academy, a school for African Americans sponsored by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Street, James William, 1858-1944 (Mss 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Street, James William, 1858-1944 (Mss 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 478. Account books and journals of James William Street, recording his activities and local events, primarily in Henderson and Lyon counties in Kentucky. He also records the 1908-1909 activities of the Night Riders in the region.
Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Sc 1036), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Sc 1036), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1036. Notes of Howard E. Bailey, Western Kentucky University’s Dean of Student Affairs, taken during a 1998 interview with Frank Otha Moxley. Moxley relates his educational pursuits and career. Includes Bailey’s informational letter.
Schenck, William T. Y., 1844-1904 (Sc 2690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Schenck, William T. Y., 1844-1904 (Sc 2690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of letter (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2690. Letter, 22 March 1866, to a newspaper editor from Captain William Schenck, encamped near Bowling Green, Kentucky with the 119th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry. He denies the editor’s claim that an outbreak of smallpox in the town was attributable to “careless Negro soldiers” and describes the measures taken to control the disease among his troops.
Hardin, John A., B. 1948 (Sc 972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hardin, John A., B. 1948 (Sc 972), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 972. Paper titled “African American Education in Kentucky: An Overview,” presented at the Kentucky Building, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in observance of Black History Month by history professor John Hardin.
Ua12/2/33 Whips & Chains, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History
Ua12/2/33 Whips & Chains, Wku Association For The Study Of African American Life & History
WKU Archives Records
Invitation to first WKU Association for the Study of African American Life & History event entitled Whips & Chains.
Helm, Thomas (Sc 19), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Thomas (Sc 19), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 19. Indenture between Thomas Helm, Clerk of the Lincoln County, Kentucky Court, and Edmond B. Taylor, regarding an apprenticeship for Rhoda, a free girl, mulatto, aged 13 years old. Taylor was to teach Rhoda the trade of spinning and weaving.
Dawson, Ella Mai (Randolph), 1892-1991 (Mss 397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dawson, Ella Mai (Randolph), 1892-1991 (Mss 397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 397. Family correspondence, church materials, greeting cards and other personal papers of Ella Mai (Randolph) Dawson, a native of Logan County, Kentucky and resident of Clarksville, Tennessee. Includes voter registration and urban renewal materials relating to African Americans.
Angel, E. M. (Sc 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Angel, E. M. (Sc 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 420. Notice, Greensburg, Kentucky, to the African-American men of the 4th Congressional District, asking for recruits with bounties being offered, and stating that if they do not volunteer, they will be drafted. Signed by E.M. Angel, Deputy Provost Marshal, 4th Congressional District.
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2529. Two slave bills of sale (1849, 1856) to Tobias S. Grider, and agreement (1861) of a family of emancipated African Americans to be enslaved by William Davenport.
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2527. Warrant (1822) to sheriff to take custody of a free mulatto man found in Warren County; certificates (2) and appointment (1) relating to slave patrols in Warren County (1824-1825); and undated power of attorney authorizing apprehension of a fugitive slave from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Sc 2528), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2528. Summons to jury and witnesses and charge in the case of Lucy, an enslaved woman, accused of attempting to murder her owner’s wife with an axe in 1814.
Korn, Mike (Sc 2516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Korn, Mike (Sc 2516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text transcription (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2516. Interview conducted by Mike Korn and a Mr. Starks with Reverend Earl J. Jackson, Bowling Green, Kentucky in reference to the religious and educational work of Reverend Henry David Carpenter.
Interview Conducted By Joseph Carl Ruff With Herbert Alexander Oldham (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview Conducted By Joseph Carl Ruff With Herbert Alexander Oldham (Fa 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview conducted by Joseph Carl Ruff with Herbert Alexander Oldham on 15 May 1993 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. They discuss African American education in Bowling Green, Kentucky, integration, and segregation. They also discuss Oldham's education at St. Augustine College in Raleigh, North Carolina, his teaching career and education administration positions in Bowling Green, his family background, and his experiences as an African American youth in Bowling Green.
"Spectacular Opacities": The Hyers Sisters' Performances Of Respectability And Resistance, Jocelyn Buckner
"Spectacular Opacities": The Hyers Sisters' Performances Of Respectability And Resistance, Jocelyn Buckner
Theatre Faculty Articles and Research
This essay analyzes the Hyers Sisters, a Reconstruction-era African American sister act, and their radical efforts to transcend social limits of gender, class, and race in their early concert careers and three major productions, Out of Bondage and Peculiar Sam, or The Underground Railroad, two slavery-to-freedom epics, and Urlina, the African Princess, the first known African American play set in Africa. At a time when serious, realistic roles and romantic plotlines featuring black actors were nearly nonexistent due to the country’s appetite for stereotypical caricatures, the Hyers Sisters used gender passing to perform opposite one another as heterosexual lovers in …
Review Of "Brothers To The Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives On The African American Militia And Volunteers, 1865-1917" By Bruce Glasrud, Jennifer D. Keene
Review Of "Brothers To The Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives On The African American Militia And Volunteers, 1865-1917" By Bruce Glasrud, Jennifer D. Keene
History Faculty Articles and Research
This is a review of Bruce Glasrud's "Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers."
A Historical Narrative Of The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Freedom Schools And Their Legacy For Contemporary Youth Leadership Development Programming, Leslie K. Etienne
A Historical Narrative Of The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Freedom Schools And Their Legacy For Contemporary Youth Leadership Development Programming, Leslie K. Etienne
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
During what became known as the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) established alternative temporary summer "Freedom Schools" in communities throughout the state. SNCC was a civil rights organization led by young, mostly African American college students and ex-students that worked against racial discrimination during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, they were poised to lead Freedom Summer, a massive effort that aimed to transform the brutal white dominated power structure of Mississippi, a stronghold of extremely violent southern racism. During the planning for Freedom Summer, SNCC field secretary Charles Cobb suggested that the summer …
Onyekwuluje, Anne B. (Sc 2473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Onyekwuluje, Anne B. (Sc 2473), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2473. Interviews conducted by Anne B. Onyekwuluje with seven individuals about the life and influence of Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers, the first woman elected to the Kentucky state Senate in 1963. They discuss their political relationships with Powers and her influence in politics and the Civil Rights movement.
Holstein, Otto, 1883-1934 (Sc 2433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Holstein, Otto, 1883-1934 (Sc 2433), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2433. Memorandum, 1 September 1917, to Brigade Commander of 1st Brigade, Kentucky Infantry from Otto Holstein, Captain, Signal Corps, and Provost Marshall of Lexington, Kentucky, reporting on an altercation between military police officers and African Americans. Includes a newspaper clipping about the incident.
Cotter, Joseph Seaman, 1861-1949 (Sc 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cotter, Joseph Seaman, 1861-1949 (Sc 378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 378. Letter, from Joseph S. Cotter, Louisville, Kentucky, to James Tandy Ellis, a fellow poet, which relates an incident of Cotter’s early life.
Ua1b1/5 Martin Luther King Forum, Wku Archives
Ua1b1/5 Martin Luther King Forum, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records regarding the Martin Luther King Forum.
Porter, Ora Frances, 1880-1970 (Sc 2291), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Porter, Ora Frances, 1880-1970 (Sc 2291), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2291. Letter, 6 November 1966, from Ora Frances Porter, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to her nephew Robert Earl Whitney and his wife Verla; correspondence with Verla Whitney relating to Porter after her death; undated photo of Porter; 1968 letter to the editor of the "Daily News" from Margie Helm reviewing Porter's career as a registered nurse; two books from Porter's library.
Porter, Otho Dandrith, 1867-1936 (Sc 2292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Porter, Otho Dandrith, 1867-1936 (Sc 2292), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2292. Receipt for $1.00 to Banks Lovell signed by Otho Dandrith Porter, an African-American physician in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Mt. Moriah Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mt. Moriah Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2235. Listing of those members of the African American community buried in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1940-1978. Section and lot numbers for the graves are given, but death dates are given only occasionally.
What's Race Got To Do With It?: A Historical Inquiry Into The Impact Of Color-Blind Reform On Racial Inequality In America's Public Schools, Lillian Dowdell Drakeford
What's Race Got To Do With It?: A Historical Inquiry Into The Impact Of Color-Blind Reform On Racial Inequality In America's Public Schools, Lillian Dowdell Drakeford
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
This dissertation examines the history and impact of color-blind educational reform in the post-Brown era on racial inequality of educational opportunities and outcomes in America's public schools. Through the lens of critical race theory and race critical theory, the dissertation employs a dual analysis. A macro analysis of the evolution and impact of colorblind educational reform on the national level is juxtaposed with a micro, case-study analysis of the history of color-blind educational reform at a historically Black high school. The historical analysis of the relationship between race and education encompasses intellectual and social aspects of education in the U.S. …
Campbellsville - Taylor County, Kentucky Oral History Project (Fa 202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Campbellsville - Taylor County, Kentucky Oral History Project (Fa 202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 202. Project includes 22 interviews with African Americans concerning their lives as Taylor County, Kentucky residents. Interviews are on compact discs with interviewer's notes included. Topics discussed include: family life, when and why they live in Taylor County, childhood experiences, community involvement and personal opinions about Taylor County.
Bush, Brendan David (Fa 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bush, Brendan David (Fa 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 421. Interview: "Dr. F. O. Moxley: Trailblazer" conducted by Bendan David Bush for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Jones, John E. (Sc 1773), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, John E. (Sc 1773), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text-scan of paper for Manuscripts Small Collection 1773. Paper written by John E. Jones titled "The Political Status of Negroes in Warren County." Includes quotations from community leaders as well as statistics related to the number of qualified African American voters in each voting precinct.
Street-Ball: The Myth Of The Ghetto Basketball Star, Vincent F. Mcsweeney
Street-Ball: The Myth Of The Ghetto Basketball Star, Vincent F. Mcsweeney
Honors Scholar Theses
In recent decades, countless scholars have examined the developing trend of African American dominance in United States’ professional sports. Many have hypothesized that this over-representation is caused by the presumed reliance on sports as an avenue out of poverty for the African American youths. This trend, it is believed, has a highly detrimental effect the African American community. In actuality, this argument is flawed because it works under the stereotypical assumption that the overwhelming majority of African Americans come from abject poverty. To dispel this fallacy, the author has analyzed the upbringings of each All-National Basketball League First Team player …