African American women artists; Poetry--Social aspects; Music--Social aspects; Art--Social aspects;Shange, Ntozake. For colored girls who have considered suicide when the Rainbow is enuf.; Walker, Kara Elizabeth. Gone.; India.Arie. Video.;...
The creative expressions of three black women artists--Ntozake Shange, Kara Walker, and India. Arie--are explored using optimal consciousness-an Afrocentric framework by Linda James Myers. This concept advocates that the role of the artist is to...
Schools; Carpentry; Religious facilities; Classrooms; Children; African Americans
Young African American boys work in a carpentry lab at the Presbyterian Colored Mission in Louisville, Kentucky. They use saws, hammers, mallets and other wood working tools as a man in dark slacks, a white shirt, and dark tie helps them.
Men; Women; People; Religious facilities; Welfare facilities; Quilts; Beds
Address: 314 S. Hancock Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Beds and makeshift room dividers adorn a room for refugees at the Presbyterian Colored Mission. Two men and two women sit in the room. The men wear suits and have placed their hats on one of the...
African Americans; African American physicians; African Americans--Hospitals; African Americans--Social conditions; African Americans--Education; Segregation in education; African Americans--Medical care; Hospitals; Medical education; Race...
Oral history interview with Louisville physician Maurice Rabb. Dr. Rabb discusses his early life and education in Mississippi. He speaks of his experiences as a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, comparing race relations in his...
Louisville Free Public Library; Segregation; Libraries; African Americans; People
Address: 604 S. Tenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. African American children sit at tables or stand by bookshelves in the children's room of the Western Colored Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library. A number of books are on the tables and...
Address: 1713 W. Madison Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This photograph, commissioned by the Board of Education, was shot to keep track of the progress on the renovation of this building into a new high school for African American children....
Address: 518 S. Eighth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. At the corner of Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard) and Eighth Street, the Convent of the Good Shepherd Home for Colored Children stood. This photograph shows the a group of girls posed...
Several African American girls learn how to weave in a classroom, presumably run by the Presbyterian Colored Mission. Each has a wooden frame with a piece of rough cloth stretched across it. The girls use a pointed tool on the cloth. One of the...
Schools; Religious facilities; Classrooms; Children; African Americans
A child stands at the front of the room with one hand risen holding a white object. Rows of other African American children sit with various musical instruments including jugs, drums, and glasses partially filled with water. An adult sits playing...
Religious facilities; Welfare facilities; Women; Children; People; Buildings; African Americans
Address: 760 S. Hancock Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A group of African Americans adults wait with children, including a toddler and infants, in front of the Presbyterian Colored Mission. One man stands at the end near a car. The brick building...
Students from Central High School stand in front of what is likely the school. The students where band uniforms with hats and capes. The front line includes the drums, drum major, and a man in a suit who is likely the band director. Several rows of...
Women; African Americans; Students; Schools; Cookery; People
Young women at Central Colored School (908 Magazine Street, Louisville, Kentucky) take a cooking class. Each girl wears an apron over her dress and a chef's hat or towel around her hair. The tables have an array of bowls and silverware on them as...
Several young African American men work on an automobile chassis. Some wear overalls to protect their clothing; others wear vests and shirts. These young men are likely students at Central Colored School where the photograph was taken.
Louisville Free Public Library; Segregation; Libraries; African Americans; People
Two women in hats and coats consult a librarian at the reference desk of the Western Colored Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library. A trophy sits on the corner of the desk. A man in a suit stands to one side of the desk browsing a book. A...
Buildings; Religious facilities; Churches; Presbyterian churches; African American churches
Grace Presbyterian Church, a low brick building located at Hancock and Roselane streets, Louisville, Kentucky, served the African-American community. The entrance is at the street corner. Handwritten in the bottom left: "10-8-29" and...
Convent of the Good Shepherd Home for Colored Girls, 800 West Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard) and 518 South 8th Street. Convent of the Good Shepherd, a long, two-story building in Louisville, Kentucky, with a statue of Jesus holding a...
Mary Hill School, Sixth & Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Square, three-story brick building having a flat roof with small pediments on the front and side. Over the door is written, "Mary D. Hill School." A white picket fence...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Entertainers; Men
Color lithograph of Col. Jack H. (Christopher) Haverly wearing a full mustache, suit jacket, and tie. Born June 30, 1837 in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, J. H. Haverly led a series of minstrel and operetta troupes, which performed at Macauley's...
Parties; Employees; African Americans; Newspaper industry
African-American men and women sit on either side of five long dining tables and look towards the camera in the front of the room. Plates and food are on the tables. Two flags are along the back wall. Text on photograph: Courier Journal and...
