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How Is The Most Segregated City In The Country Addressing Disproportionate Minority Contact With A Juvenile Burglary Restorative Justice Program And What Implications Exist For Community Based Restorative Circles? : Conflict Analysis And Recommendations, Lauren Thrift

Capstone Collection

Milwaukee, Wisconsin is considered the most segregated city in the country and has the most disproportionate rate of minorities in Wisconsin’s juvenile justice system. The State of Wisconsin recognizes disproportionate minority contact (DMC) is a product of both differential offending by minorities and the racist differential processing by the juvenile justice system. Milwaukee’s residents are locked in a conflict about the role of racism in the high rates of minority crime and whether to address DMC with more stringent punishment or increasing alternatives to incarceration. The entrenched segregation between African American and Caucasian neighborhoods and social groups reinforces polarization, increasing …

American Association Of University Women - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 727. Letters, 1949-52 (14), written to Sibyl Stonecipher, WKU professor, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from a Displaced
Person in Germnay, Aina Raits, whose family was adopted by the Bowling Green Branch. Letters relating the same, 1949, 1976 (2), and photos of Raits’ family (2).

Young, Asher Leon, 1919-1991 (Sc 766), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 766. Letter, 16 November 1984, written by Asher Leon Young, Nashville, Tennessee, to Jane Morningstar, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in response to a book she sent him entitled Architecture of Warren County, Kentucky, 1790-1940. He relates data concerning the Oak Forest Union Church and the Mount Zion Church of Christ of Warren County, Kentucky.

Slocum, Vicki Lynn (Stofer), 1942-2018 (Sc 767), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 767. Vicki L. Slocum’s typed notes compiled while researching the Green River area of Kentucky. She reviewed the steamboat photographs in the Courtney Ellis Collection (MSS 48) with the objective of listing those that had plied the Green River.

Lawson, Alex Roger, 1858-1925 (Sc 758), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 758. Letters (2) from Alex R. Lawson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Frank Coleman, Marshall, Texas, about his brother’s business, activities at the State Street Methodist Church, and a military band. Also miscellaneous envelopes and photocopy of Lawson’s obituary.

Titcomb, John M., B. 1814? (Sc 756), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 756. Medical remedies and recipes collected in a small notebook of John M. Titcomb of Baltimore, Maryland.

Penn, Shadrach, Jr., 1790-1846 (Sc 759), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 759. Oaths taken by Shadrach Penn, Jr., in Russellville, Kentucky, in 1810, when he was an apprentice on the Farmer’s Friend newspaper.

Donaldson, John Brent, 1890-1971 (Sc 757), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 757. Account of J. B. Donaldson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, of the Barren River flood of 1913, the destruction of a freight house and the McMullan and Higgins tavern, and the removal of Charles J. Vanmeter’s coffin from his home due to the flood. Also includes a 1937 newspaper clipping about the flood.

Willian, John Edwin Bruce, 1858-1922 (Sc 765), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 765. Correspondence of John Edwin Bruce Willian, Buffalo, Larue County, and his wife, Ruth (Whitlow) Willian
(Oakland, Warren County) 1910-1920 (18), letters to Ruth Willian, 1904-1914 (6), graduation invitation (1905), valedictory n.d., deposit slips, lumber statement (1915), and menu, 1918.

Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Sc 762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 762. Letter, 20 May 1958, written by Alfred Leland Crabb, Nashville, Tennessee, to Eugenia Gerard Paxton, Bowling Green, Kentucky, responding to Mrs. Paxton’s laudatory letter commenting on his book, Peace in Bowling Green. Also poems composed by Crabb for Christmas greetings.

Natcher, William Huston, 1909-1994 (Sc 755), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 755. Letter, 29 May 1965, from U. S. Representative William H. Natcher, Washington, D.C. to Charles M. Stewart, Barren River Development League, regarding a feasibility study of restoring Lock and Dam #4 (Woodbury) on the Green River.

Robinson, Lucille (Tubb), 1896-1981 (Sc 764), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 764. Speech by Lucille Robinson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled, “The History of the Warren County Courthouse.”

Carnes, James E. (Sc 752), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 752. Letters, 1860 and undated, written by J. E. Carnes, a Methodist preacher of Galveston, Texas, to Josie Underwood, Bowling Green, Kentucky, concerning his ideas about Texas and recalling Bowling Green friends of former days; also included is Underwood family genealogical information.

Wilson, Emma Meadow (Allbritten), 1891-1977 (Sc 753), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 753. Letters, 1962-1976 (24), written by Emma (Allbritten) Wilson, Bowling Green and Hazel, Kentucky, to Betty
Hemming, England; booklet and letter, 1976, written by Betty relating how her family met Mr. Wilson in 1935; letter to Betty written by Mr. Wilson, telling of Emma’s death; correspondence, 1977-1978 (5), between Betty and Pat Hodges, Kentucky Library, concerning the collection.

Why The "Harvest Of Death" Doesn't Matter (And Why It Does), John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

I went on a tour a few Sundays ago. It was very tough to explain exactly what I had done (in sensible terms) with my coworkers when I came into the office the next Monday morning. Not just very tough, but embarrassingly tough.

THEM: "What did you do this weekend, John?"

ME: "Well, Sunday I went on a tour of places on the Gettysburg battlefield where one specific photo wasn't taken-"

THEM: *blank stare* [excerpt]

Cook, Elizabeth Charlotte (Mss 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 403. Letters written by various male friends, many in military service during World War II, to Elizabeth Charlotte Cook while she was in school at Campbellsville College, Campbellsville, Kentucky and Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Some of the letters are of a courtship nature.

Dunn, Thomas Pearce, B. 1861 (Sc 751), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 751. Letter, 1 May 1914, written by Thomas Pearce Dunn, South Houston, Texas, to his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Leland Pearce, Auburn, Kentucky, relating much information about Texas, especially concerning the land, weather, and fruit growing.

Moss, John Mckenzie, 1868-1929 (Sc 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 518. Papers of John McKenzie Moss, lawyer, judge, and politician of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Notice of his contest of election, 3^rd Congressional District, 1900; letters to Moss pertaining chiefly to politics, 1902-1903; letter of Moss to lawyer, 1902.

Simmons, Clayton C. (Sc 2639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2639. Bound typescript copy of a book compiled by Clayton C. Simmons, titled “An Historical Journey Through Barren County, Kentucky.” Topics of interest include Barren County and Edmonson County family histories and general history about the counties.

Wood, James Willis, 1841-1940 (Sc 750), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 750. Business papers of James Willis Wood, farmer of Dunmor, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, including 49 tax and other receipts, and two land agreements.