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Breaking News: How To Vote, Preston Love Jr.

Black Studies Faculty Publications

In this column, we have been and will continue to discuss the need to vote and why to vote. Now, let’s focus on “How to Vote”. Maybe you think you already know how to vote. Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. Before I send you off to vote “half baked”, let’s make sure you know how. Knowing how to vote will maximize your vote. With only a small percentage of us voting, let’s make sure that we voters get the most out of our vote. Black Votes Matter.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 91, No. 21, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Henderson, Andrew. WKU Kappa Sigma Chapter Suspended – Fraternities and Sororities
• Ares, Nicole & Andrew Henderson. Bring on Matt Bevin – Politicians
• Sandefur, Alex. Holocaust Exhibit Ends Stay at Kentucky Museum
• Mayo, Marcel & Andrew Henderson. Controversy Surrounds Dub the Pub Competition – Topper Pub & Grill
• Profumo, Morgan. Sexual Assault Victim Blaming Needs to Stop
• Winstead, John. Rising Tuition Costs Students Their Future
• Scarlett, Gabriel. Off the Wall Photospread – ROTC, Rappelling
• Moore, Brittiny. Greeks Share A Week of Float Building Camaraderie – Homecoming, Fraternities and Sororities
• Critchelow, …

Morgan, Joan, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Joan Morgan is the author of “When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost’, activist, and doctoral student. She is of Jamaican descent. Her parents came to the United States and settled in the Bronx near Crotona Park. Her father was one of the founding members of the Jamaican Labor party; she calls the Bustamante's her “godparents.” He was also a member of the Jamaica Freedom League while in the Bronx.

While living on Fulton Avenue, Joan used to frequently go to Crotona Park because of the community center right by it, the Clermont Center. Her mother was an active member of …

To "Plant Our Trees On American Soil, And Repose Beneath Their Shade": Africa, Colonization, And The Evolution Of A Black Identity Narrative In The United States, 1808-1861, Edward Jason Vickers

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This work explores the role that ideas about Africa played in the development of a specifically American identity among free blacks in the United States, from the early nineteenth century to the Civil War. Previous studies of the writings of free blacks in the Revolutionary period, and of the American Colonization Society (ACS), which was devoted to removing them back to an African homeland, have suggested that black discussions of Africa virtually disappeared after 1816, when the colonization movement began. However, as this work illustrates, the letters, books, newspapers, and organizational records produced by free blacks in the antebellum era …

Slavery Reparations, Kristen Gatens

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Class of 2019)

As part of the English 101.003 Writing Seminar taught by Dr. Anne Porter in Fall 2015 at Providence College, this essay was written in response to an assignment to articulate a central question about slavery reparations. The essay explores the question from various angles and makes reference to Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel, “The Case for Reparations” from The Atlantic (June 2014) by Ta-Nehisi Coates, as well as at least one additional, scholarly source. The essay is written for college-age readers, who are interested in the issue and asking the same questions.

Abstract: In …

Forty Acres And Unfulfilled Promises, Julia Rizza

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Class of 2019)

As part of the English 101.003 Writing Seminar taught by Dr. Anne Porter in Fall 2015 at Providence College, this essay was written in response to an assignment to articulate a central question about slavery reparations. The essay explores the question from various angles and makes reference to Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel, “The Case for Reparations” from The Atlantic (June 2014) by Ta-Nehisi Coates, as well as at least one additional, scholarly source. The essay is written for college-age readers, who are interested in the issue and asking the same questions.

Abstract: In …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 91, No. 20, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Henderson, Andrew. Tuition Incentive Program Undergoes Changes Effective Summer 2016
• Henderson, Andrew & Samantha Wright. Retention Rates Display Trend of Improvement
• Young, Alyse. Centennial Mosaic Undergoes Repairs to Become Safer – Fountains
• Sullivan, Tommy. Passport Bistro Serves Sustainable Coffee – Dining Services
• Mayo, Marcel. Formation of Parent Pregnancy Resource Expected – Student Government Association
• Pettway, Shantel-Ann. Counseling & Testing Center Expands Safe Zone Training – Gays, Lesbians
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon Silence is Golden – Freedom of Speech
• Hardin, Scout. A Guide for Choosing Winter Hairstyles
• WKU Denies Students …

Finding A Home: Latino Residential Influx Into Progress Village, 1990-2010, Christopher Julius Pineda

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Progress Village in Tampa Florida was developed in the late 1950s in response to the dislocation of black families during the construction of Interstate-4. Furthermore this community became an opportunity for many black and more specifically, African American families, to live in a community devoid of racist attitudes and tensions rampant in inner city Tampa at the time. For over thirty years this community’s residential population was overwhelmingly (90 percent) black or African American. In the 1990s though this community would begin to experience the first wave of Latino residents and by 2000 this group would comprise over 2 percent …

“There’S Still That Window That’S Open”: The Problem With “Grit”, Noah Asher Golden

Education Faculty Articles and Research

This narrative analysis case study challenges the education reform movement’s fascination with “grit,” the notion that a non-cognitive trait like persistence is at the core of disparate educational outcomes and the answer to our inequitable education system. Through analysis of the narratives and meaning-making processes of Elijah, a 20-year-old African American seeking his High School Equivalency diploma, this case study explores linkages among dominant discourses on meritocracy, opportunity, personal responsibility, and group blame. Specifically, exposition of the figured worlds present in Elijah’s narratives points to the attempted obfuscation of social inequities present in the current educational reform movement and our …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 91, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Mayo, Marcel. Parking & Transportation Services Finds Fake Parking Permits
• Sullivan, Tommy. Global Grub: New Honors College & International Center Restaurant Opens Monday – Passport Bistro, Dining Services
• Wright, Samantha. WKU Advises Hammock Fans to Take Care of Trees
• Sandefur, Alex. Symphony Concert Promotes Halloween Theme – Music
• Sandefur, Alex. Student, Management Speak on Aramark Employment
• Mayo, Marcel. Student Government Association Passes Resolution to Support More Bike-Friendly Campus
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon Rain
• Critchelow, Andrew. Three Albums from October You Should Be Listening To – Music Review
• Profumo, Morgan. …

Hayes, Christopher, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Christopher Hayes was born in February of 1789. He is a journalist whose work deals with those living in the Bronx and the economic challenges that face them. Hayes grew up in the Bronx to a Jesuit father and a first generation Italian mother. His father traveled and worked in Peru and at the University of Detroit before settling down at Fordham. His father was also a community organizer. His mother grew up in the Bronx, near the Fordham rose hill campus. She attended Lehman College. It is here where his mother and father met one another, sparked a friendship …

Driskell, Dana, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Interviewee: Dana Driskell

Interviewers: Mark Naison, Mark Smith

Transcribed By: Colleen McCafferty

Summarized By: Eddie Mikus

Dana Driskell is a former student at Fordham University who has since worked for the New York City planning commission. He told the Bronx African-American History Project about some of the social changes that have occurred in the Bronx during his life, as well as his time at Fordham University.

Driskell said that his father worked as a sheet metal worker who often worked in construction. Although Driskell’s father belonged to a union, he said that his father often experienced discrimination that was prevalent …

Reparations For Modern Day Inequalities, Deneysha Riley

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Class of 2019)

As part of the English 101.003 Writing Seminar taught by Dr. Anne Porter in Fall 2015 at Providence College, this essay was written in response to an assignment to articulate a central question about slavery reparations. The essay explores the question from various angles and makes reference to Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel, “The Case for Reparations” from The Atlantic (June 2014) by Ta-Nehisi Coates, as well as at least one additional, scholarly source. The essay is written for college-age readers, who are interested in the issue and asking the same questions.

Abstract: My …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 91, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Henderson, Andrew. Former Employee Faces Fraud Allegations – Adam Rider
• Henderson, Andrew. Event Sparks Conversation on Homelessness – Demonstrations, Protests
• Mayo, Marcel. Vice President of Student Affairs Set to Retire – Howard Bailey
• Sullivan, Tommy. HCIC Building Dedicated in Official Ceremony – Honors College & International Center
• Pettway, Shantel-Ann. Alumni Association Executive Director Retiring – Richard DuBose
• Editorial Cartoon – Bowling Green Daily News & Homeless
• Hardin, Scout. How to Declutter Your Closet
• Homelessness Issue Can’t Be Solved Without Action
• Chism, Kalee. Workshop Series to Support Student Involvement – …

Institutional Factors Influencing African-American Male Involvement In Undergraduate Student Organizations, John Mark Davenport

Theses and Dissertations

Students attending colleges and universities who have purposeful opportunities to interact with peers and faculty about educational matters and who are challenged with consistent encouragement report higher levels of satisfaction with their collegiate experience and have higher persistence rates than students who do not receive these opportunities (Kuh et al., 1991; Pascarella & Terenzini, 1991; Schroeder & Mable, 1994). In higher education, African-American males are neither retained from admission through graduation at a rate comparable to majority students nor African-American women (AASCU, 1988; ACE, 2008; Harper, 2012). In this study I set out to determine which institutional factors influence African-American …

The Resurrection Of Jim Crow And The Birth Of A Non-Voting Black Community, Preston Love Jr.

Black Studies Faculty Publications

THE RESURRECTION OF JIM CROW AND THE BIRTH OF A NON VOTING BLACK COMMUNITY. BOTH NEED A QUICK BURIAL. After the passage of the 15th amendment to the US constitution in 1870, Black folk were given the right to participate as citizens and given the right to vote.

Volume 8 - Issue 1: La Créole - A Journal Of Creole History & Genealogy, Dr. Ronald Dorris, Fatima Shaik, Mary Gehhman

La Créole - A Journal of Creole History & Genealogy

The Louisiana Creole Research Association, Inc., known as LA Creole, was founded on August 21, 2004 as a New Orleans-based, non-profit family research and educational organization. Its purpose is to assist Creoles of Color in researching their ancestry, to educate the general public about Creole history and culture, and to celebrate the contributions and legacy of a unique, sometimes forgotten people. La Créole, the Association’s journal is published annually.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 91, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Mathews, Carly. Plans Begin for Active Shooter Training Program – Mass Shootings
• Henderson, Andrew. Fundraising Campaign Helps Student Achieve Life-Long Dream – Shawn Sattazahn, Skydiving
• Sullivan, Tommy. Roundabout Proves to Be Cost-Effective, Safe – US31-W, Nasville Road, Streets
• Wright, Samantha. State Department Assistant Secretary to Speak on Friday – Anne Richard
• Pettway, Shantel. Student Wins FUSE Grant at GIS Conference – Ryan Uthoff, Faculty-Undergraduate Student Engagement, Geography & Geology
• Mayo, Marcel. Student Government Association Discusses Listening Tours, Sustainability Day
• Winstead, John. WKU Avoids Issues on Campus – Racism
• Richey, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 91, No. 16, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Wright, Samantha. Hanban to Cover Costs for Confucius Institute
• Critchelow, Andrew & Nicole Ares. What’s the Word – Freedom of Speech
• Mayo, Marcel. Smoking Phaseout Plan to Begin Next Semester
• Sandefur, Alex. Faculty, Staff to Receive One Free Meal Per Week
• Young, Alyse & Tommy Sullivan. The Curious Case of the Crane: Statue Returns, Destroyed Again – Crane Unfolding
• Henderson, Andrew & Lashana Harney. University Senate Offers Update on Confucius Institute, Compensation Issues
• Editorial Cartoon – Smoking
• Freeman, Shane. Goosebumps Remake Will Thrill Kids – Movies
• Watch Your Butt: …

Warren County, Kentucky - Tax Records (Mss 548), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection 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.