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Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 - Collector (Mss 685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 - Collector (Mss 685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 685. Research material collected by Ray B. Buckberry, Jr. related to Ernest Hogan, an African American musician from Bowling Green, Kentucky, who is sometimes credited as one of the pioneers of ragtime music. He composed and wrote lyrics for numerous musical pieces for minstrel shows and published sheet music.
Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Mss 664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Mss 664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 664. Personal and professional papers of Dr. Frank O. Moxley of Bowling Green, Kentucky, an educator, guidance counselor, coach, and prominent member of the city’s African American community. Includes projects and narratives related to Bowling Green’s African American heritage.
Pearson, Carolyn (Sc 3377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearson, Carolyn (Sc 3377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3377. “Shadow of a Rope,” a paper by WKU student Carolyn Pearson about the arrest and trial for rape of an African American man, Sam Jennings, and his 1932 execution, the last public hanging in Breckinridge County and the second-last in Kentucky. Pearson interviewed citizens connected with the case and included five photographs of Jennings on the scaffold.
Loving, Frances (Hoover), 1906-1982 (Sc 3339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Loving, Frances (Hoover), 1906-1982 (Sc 3339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3339. Letter, 19 August 1968, of Frances (Hoover) Loving, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to the editor of the Park City Daily News, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The former resident of Bowling Green deplores the recent bombing of a rural African-American church near the city and expresses the hope that law enforcement will solve the crime, stated in an attached clipping to be the sixth in the county in the past eighteen months. Copied to several state and national politicians, pastors, and Western Kentucky University faculty, the letter was published in the Daily News on …
African Americans In Madison County, Kentucky, Reinette F. Jones
African Americans In Madison County, Kentucky, Reinette F. Jones
Library Presentations
Reinette Jones, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Kentucky Libraries, speak about notable Madison County African Americans.
Gotta’ Go! African American Migration And Community Outside Kentucky, Reinette F. Jones
Gotta’ Go! African American Migration And Community Outside Kentucky, Reinette F. Jones
Library Presentations
Reinette Jones from the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center shares what she has learned about the fascinating and hidden story of the "out-migration" of African Americans from Kentucky while developing the Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (NKAA).
Please, Remember Me: African Americans From Scott County, Ky, Reinette F. Jones
Please, Remember Me: African Americans From Scott County, Ky, Reinette F. Jones
Library Presentations
Reinette Jones, who created the Notable Kentucky African Americans (NKAA) Database, explains how to use this award-winning library tool while introducing us to some lesser-known Scott Countians. They include Sgt. Harrison Bradford, who led the San Pedro Springs Mutiny (TX) in 1867, in the fight for fair treatment of African American soldiers, and Lillian Nareen White, the first African American woman to play basketball at UK.
African American Funeral Home Records - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
African American Funeral Home Records - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 626), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 626. Records of the Kuykendall-Abel-Boyd and Abel Brothers funeral home businesses, operated by African Americans in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Records include names of deceased, funeral dates and expenses, and in some cases family information, cause of death and place of interment. The records were photocopied from originals in the possession of Gatewood and Sons Funeral Chapel, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Owens, Nellie, 1912-2007 (Sc 3051), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Owens, Nellie, 1912-2007 (Sc 3051), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3051. W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration) sewing notebook of Nellie Owens, Louisville, Kentucky, containing fabric swatches and sewing samples.
Warren County, Kentucky - Tax Records (Mss 548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Tax Records (Mss 548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 548. Bound volume recording local taxes paid by residents of Warren County, Kentucky for 1939. Includes names and addresses of both white and African American residents.
Vertrees, Peter, 1840-1926 (Sc 1282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vertrees, Peter, 1840-1926 (Sc 1282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1282. Autobiography of Peter Vertrees, an African-American native of Edmonson County, Kentucky, who served as a cook in the Confederate Army, 6th Kentucky Cavalry. Afterward, he was an educator and Baptist minister, chiefly in Sumner County, Tennessee. Includes associated biographical data, and the autobiography of his third wife Diora.
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.
Mccartt-Jackson, Sarah (Fa 578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccartt-Jackson, Sarah (Fa 578), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 578. Paper by Sarah McCartt-Jackson titled “Narrative Compromise: African American Representation at Henry Clay’s Ashland Estate.” Paper provides analysis of the inclusion and accuracy of the history of slavery at Ashland, and slavery’s depiction in tour narratives, brochures, exhibit signage, advertisements, and websites. This project won the 2011Folklife Archives Award competition at Western Kentucky University.
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.
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.
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.
Ua3/1/3 President's Office-Cherry - Scrapbooks, Wku Archives
Ua3/1/3 President's Office-Cherry - Scrapbooks, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, articles and publications of interest to WKU President Henry Cherry. These include education religion, state and national politics, prohibition and Western Kentucky University.
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.
Shirley, James Kelly (Fa 474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shirley, James Kelly (Fa 474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 474. A term project prepared by James Kelly Shirley on Cora Mae Howard for a Western Kentucky University history class titled "The Negro in American History."