Nazi Saboteurs Trial, Washington, D.C., 1942; Trials (Sabotage)--Washington (D.C.); War and emergency powers--United States; Military courts--United States--History
For over two hundred years a major issue in the history of the United States is the contentious issue of military commissions. Military commissions are not new or specific to the United States, but the United States traces its first military...
This thesis is an examination and analysis of the role of law enforcement in the transformation of a city's downtown from one dominated by sleazy strip bars and prostitutes to one of family entertainment. The focus is on the police and prosecutors;...
Undertakers and undertaking; Business people; African American businesspeople; Politicians; African American politicians; Discrimination in public accommodations; Segregation--Law and legislation; Discrimination in employment; African...
Oral history interview with Goldie Winstead Beckett, conducted on September 12, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. In this interview, Mrs. Beckett discusses her life as well as her husband’s experiences as alderman in the city of Louisville in the late 1940s...
African Americans; Social workers; Journalists; African American journalists; African American social workers; Beauty contests; African American newspapers; Newspapers; Louisville Defender (Louisville, Ky.); Civil rights demonstrations; Civil...
Oral history interview with Mrs. Vivian Clark Stanley conducted on August 5, 1985 by Janet Hodgson. She discusses her career as a social worker and her life with Frank Stanley, Sr., editor, manager, and publisher of the Louisville Defender. She...
Educational leadership--Kentucky; Educational accountability--Kentucky; Educational change--Kentucky; School improvement programs--Kentucky
In 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education released A Nation at Risk, which triggered an extended era of school reform culminating in today's accountability movement. In Kentucky the school improvement process, in which principals...
In 1979, the U.S. President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies stated that to function successfully in the next century, all adults would need more knowledge about our interdependent world, awareness of other peoples, and...
Maps; Housing; Real property--Kentucky--Louisville; Housing--Kentucky--Louisville; City planning--United States--Maps; City planning--Kentucky--Louisville
Maps of Louisville's properties created by federally-funded Works Progress Administration (WPA). Three copies of this book were used to create a complete set of maps, since each one lacked one or more of the maps. Printed on cover: "Volume II...
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...
African Americans--Education (Elementary); African Americans--Education (Higher); National Training School for Women and Girls (Washington, D.C.); Fisk University; Howard University; African Americans; Race relations; Civil rights; African...
Oral history interview conducted with Ruth Bryant on July 24, 1977 by Kenneth L. Chumbley. Mrs. Bryant, a community activist, primarily discusses her involvement in community organizing and political activism during the 1960’s in Louisville. ...
Ornate design featuring floral elements and a key-shaped element with a scroll wrapped around it. The scroll at the top contains the phrase "Ex Libris." A panel contains a quotation and attribution: "Unto my good books so good to...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Awnings; Windows;
The Service Building, now known as the Administrative Annex. The entrance is clearly visible, as are the front windows and their awnings. Some of the second story windows appear to be open. The Administrative Annex was built as a WPA project during...
African Americans; African American politicians; African American businesspeople; African American business enterprises; Women politicians; Civil rights; Louisville (Ky.)--Politics and government; Politicians; Integration; Discrimination in housing
Oral history interview conducted with Louise Reynolds on June 13, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Louise Reynolds was the first African American woman elected alderman in the city of Louisville. Ms. Reynolds discusses her work with the Republican Party,...
Location: 100 block of South Second Street, Louisville, Kentucky. In this street scene, a man peers down a manhole in Main Street. Behind him is a Gulf Refining Co. service station. Second Street is bustling with cars, trucks, and pedestrians. The...
Trolley tracks cut across the cobblestone at the corner of Sixth and Main Streets in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. At 532 W. Main, the corner building houses the State Board of Health of Kentucky as well as the State Tax Commission Office and the...
Address: 2531 Bank Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Automobiles park along Bank Street. Victor Mathis Florist shop is the brick building on the left. A number of houses are beyond it followed by a bakery. A photographer stands near the street with his...
An African-American gentleman in a suit stands next to an automobile. He's wearing a top hat and coat and carries a walking stick. Man and car are in front of a building with a window sign that reads, "Webb & Co., Live Stock Commission...
Several displays in a large room with a grid of metal beams at the ceiling within the Palace of Agriculture at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. On top of one of the displays, an enormous model of a tobacco leaf rises between two octagonal...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Government officials; Men
Secretary of War William Howard Taft (third from left), President Theodore Roosevelt's representative at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri (and his successor as U.S. President, in 1909), exchanges greetings with local dignitaries: Thomas H....
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)--Buildings; Buildings; Exhibition buildings; People; Group portraits; Government officials
Group portrait of men wearing dark suits and hats, and a few women wearing dresses and hats, posing on the long, wide staircase leading up to a large, two-story, brick building. A few of the men are sitting or leaning on the stair's railing, and...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Women; Public service organizations
Portrait of Lily Belknap of Louisville, Kentucky (daughter of Morris B. and Lily Buckner Belknap), wearing her hair up. She married Charles Harwood Moorman. The photograph is marked with discolorations. Handwritten on back of image: credit,...
