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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 25, Wku Student Affairs Dec 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 25, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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


Shirley, James Kelly (Fa 474), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2009

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."


Ua37/29 Gary Ransdell - Fed. Reserve Board - Ben Bernanke Q&A Session, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board Dec 2009

Ua37/29 Gary Ransdell - Fed. Reserve Board - Ben Bernanke Q&A Session, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board

WKU Archives Records

Email sent to members of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board regarding the question and answer session following Bernanke's speech at the Washington Economic Club.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 24, Wku Student Affairs Dec 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 24, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 23, Wku Student Affairs Dec 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 23, Wku Student Affairs

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


Saving Savannah: The City And The Civil War (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers Dec 2009

Saving Savannah: The City And The Civil War (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

Review of the book, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War by Jacqueline Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.


Ua37/29 Gary Ransdell - Fed. Reserve Board - Right Reform For The Fed, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board Nov 2009

Ua37/29 Gary Ransdell - Fed. Reserve Board - Right Reform For The Fed, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board

WKU Archives Records

Email sent to members of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board regarding Ben Bernanke's Op-Ed "The Right Reform for the Fed" which appeared in the Washington Post.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 22, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 22, Wku Student Affairs

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


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 20, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 20, Wku Student Affairs

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


Ua12/2/1 Looking Ahead, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2009

Ua12/2/1 Looking Ahead, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special basketball section of the College Heights Herald.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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


Kontihene, Bronx African American History Project Nov 2009

Kontihene, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Interviewee: Kontihene

Interviewer: Dr. Jane Edward, Kojo Ampa, Kareem Salifu, Dr. Mark Niason

Summarized by Sheina Ledesma

Kontihene is a Ghanaian Hip Hop musician who has lived in the Bronx since 2004. Kontihene describes his own music as being Afro-Pop or Hip-Life because it combines lively beats with traditional Ashanti folk music from Ghana. Kontihene grew up in Ghanaian town called Kumasi with his parents and two sisters. His love for music developed at a very young age. By age ten he was already writing poems and songs that discussed his family life. Encouraged and mentored by a local musician …


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

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


Ua12/2/1 Hilltoppers, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2009

Ua12/2/1 Hilltoppers, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special homecoming edition of the College Heights Herald.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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


Drammeh, Sheikh Moussa, Bronx African American History Project Nov 2009

Drammeh, Sheikh Moussa, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Interviewee: Sheikh Moussa Drammeh

Interviewer: Dr. Mark Naison, Dr. Jane Edward, Dr. Benjamin Hayford, and Kojo Ampah

Date of Interview: November 3rd, 2009

Summarized by Michael Kavanagh

Born February 4th, 1962, Drammeh grew up in Tendrami Joka, Gambia, a city bordering Senegal. He began his schooling at six years old in the Madrasas which focuses on memorizing the Qur’an. He has completed the Madrasas four times. His mother is Gambian and father is Senegalese, both died before he reached the age of ten, at which point Drammeh had to focus on making a living for himself …


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 16, Wku Student Affairs Nov 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 16, Wku Student Affairs

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


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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


Boakye, Benjamin, Bronx African American History Project Oct 2009

Boakye, Benjamin, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Interviewee: Reverend Benjamin Boakye

Interviewers: Mark Naison, Benjamin Heither, Amy Davies, Jane Edward

Date of Interview: October 29, 2009

Summarized by Sheina Ledesma

Reverend Benjamin Boakye is a senior pastor at the Ebenezer Assemblies of God church in the Bronx and the president of the Ghanaian Ministers Fellowship. Boakye was born in 1962 in the Ashanti region of Ghana. He was the eldest of six children and as the oldest was given great responsibility within the family. From an early age Boakye was exposed to University life. His father was a plumber at the University of Science and Technology in …


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

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


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

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


Ampah, Kojo, Bronx African American History Project Oct 2009

Ampah, Kojo, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Kojo Ampah is the head of a student organization at Fordham University called the African Cultural Exchange and has a long history as a radio host, organizer of cultural festivals and educator in Ghana. He is a Phantee from the Southern tip of Ghana, Cape Coast and his father is Muslim, while his mother was Catholic but converted. His father always maintained four wives so he has many siblings. His father was the medicine man for the tribe in a type of Voodoo and worked with herbs etc ., in a blend of Islam and local traditions. His father taught …


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

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


The Terminological Problem In Africana Studies, Nikitah O. Imani Oct 2009

The Terminological Problem In Africana Studies, Nikitah O. Imani

Black Studies Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Delivered lecture “The Terminological Problem in Africana Studies” at the Africana Studies Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium, 2009 "AFRICA AT THE CROSSROADS: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?" James Madison University, October 9th.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

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


International Day Of Non-Violence, Post Png Oct 2009

International Day Of Non-Violence, Post Png

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Papua New Guinea, sheet of one stamp. the President Obama International stamp Collection.


Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs Oct 2009

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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


Review Of "Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class And Black Community Development In The Jim Crow South" By L. Brown, Luther Adams Oct 2009

Review Of "Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class And Black Community Development In The Jim Crow South" By L. Brown, Luther Adams

SIAS Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Interview With Funeka Sihlali, Renell Schubert Oct 2009

Interview With Funeka Sihlali, Renell Schubert

Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement

Length: 92 minutes

Oral history interview of Funeka Sihlali by Renell Schubert

Ms. Sihlali begins by describing her childhood in King William’s Town when the Apartheid regime was instituted, living in government housing with her family in a single-room house with no bathroom, sharing a toilet with four other households. She explains having to learn the customs which were different from that in her home, for example, to look at African elders was a sign of disrespect, but outside of the home, she had to learn to make eye contact with white people to keep them from seeing her as …