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From The Volga To The Mississippi: African Americans And The Soviet Experiment, Daniel Candee

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This thesis investigates the role of African American Communists in the struggle for Black liberation during the interwar period. Making a vital intervention into the field, this work attempts to debunk the harmful Cold-War stereotype of African American Communists as “puppets of Moscow” while simultaneously engaging critically with the relationship between Black liberation and international Communism. Drawing on a vast array of secondary and archival sources, this work charts a course between a vision of the Comintern as an avenging anti-colonial angel, and a cynical force disinterested in Black Liberation.

Tracing the developing relationship between Black intellectuals and the Comintern …

Christopherson, Kathryn Kendall (Donley) "Katy," 1921-2017 (Mss 672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 672. Correspondence, articles, interviews, photographs, and printed matter relating to the work of Katy Christopherson, Louisville, Kentucky, as a maker, curator, judge, lecturer and writer on quilts and quilting. Includes material relating to her involvement with the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society and the Louisville Nimble Thimbles, Inc.

Atwood, Rufus Ballard, 1897-1963 (Sc 3397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3397. Curriculum vitae of Rufus B. Atwood, who became president of Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky in 1929. The document lists his educational credentials, achievements as KSU president, organizational affiliations, and published and unpublished work.

Shake Rag Clippings File, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

The Shake Rag Historic District, located along the north end of State Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2000. It is Bowling Green’s first National Register District recognized for its significance to African American history. The Shake Rag Neighborhood developed around Lee Square, a parcel of land donated in 1802 for use as a public square. From https://www.visitbgky.com/shakerag/, see for more information.

Where's Jonesville? How The Destruction Of Jonesville Left A Legacy Of Housing Discrimination In Bowling Green, Ky, George Carpenter

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Jonesville was a small tight-knit African-American community in Bowling Green, Kentucky with a unique cultural identity. Family-oriented and extremely self-sufficient, Jonesville thrived as a prime example of southern black culture in the mid 20^th century. However, Jonesville did not stand a chance placed against a powerful local institution. In the late 1950s and early 1960s the community was destroyed to create space for an expanding Western Kentucky University. Fueled by the entirely unjust urban renewal legislation, Kentucky Project R-31, Jonesville was wiped from the Bowling Green map. Due to locally sanctioned discriminatory action, the displaced citizens of Jonesville were …

Ua3/4/9 Presidential Scrapbook V, Part 1, Wku President's Office - Downing

WKU Archives Records

Scrapbook regarding WKU faculty, staff, events and sports for period August 1973 through January 1974 compiled by the president's office.

Gothic Glasgow Training School Yearbook, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Gothic, the yearbook for the Glasgow Training School / High School for African Americans with Mattie Sprouls, Henrietta Smiley, Mary Johnson, Nellie Follis, Lela Franklin, Mac Bradley, Principal E. Houston, teachers, Artanzie Elizabeth Britt Haynie, Mrs. S. F. Curry, G. V. Curry, Mrs. M. L. Murrell and other students. A list of African American men from Barren County in service for World War Two is included.

Kentucky Negro Educational Association - Knea Journal, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Select issues of KNEA: a journal covering African American education in Kentucky prior to integration. Includes photographs with Lebanon school, Marie Spratt Brown, Mabel Moore of Bowling Green, Western High School of Owensboro, ruth Hill Jones, story of Julius Rosenwald, mentions of Luska J. Twyman, and many other articles and statistics.

Progress In Race Relations In Kentucky, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Report of the Director of the Kentucky Commission on Race Relations for 1922 and Minutes of the Third Kentucky InterRacial Conference, December 15–16, 1922 by James Bond Director, with statewide members listed. Local members include J. E. Mansfield, Glasgow, J. E. Kuykendall, Professor E. E. Reed, Professor William Wolfe of Bowling Green. Includes discussion of accreditation of education, housing, health, justice, travel and accommodation, lynching, recreation, press coverage, women, crime, etc.

The Journal Of Negro History: Slavery In Kentucky, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.

Eagle Eye, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

This issue features suggestions for voting, personals with obituaries, places to lodge and eat, accidents, Woodlow School, church directory, and discussion of who was greater; Booker T. Washington or Frederick Douglass.

Kentucky State Colored Educational Convention, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.

Record Of Slaves In Warren County, Ky, Kentucky Library Research Collections

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No abstract provided.