Women--Kentucky--Louisville; Social reformers--Kentucky--Louisville--History; Morel, Louise C., b. 1871
Louise C. Morel was a leading social reformer in Louisville from 1917 through the early 1940s. Morel's work is a primary example of the continuation of Progressive Era ideals into the decades after the traditional end of the Progressive Era....
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African American newspapers; Louisville Leader (Ky.); Kentucky Reporter (Louisville, Ky.); Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.); Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Co....
Oral history interview with Lattimore Cole conducted on November 26, 1977 by Dwayne Cox. In this interview, Mr. Cole discusses his early education in Louisville, working for his father’s newspaper the Louisville Leader and describes what it was...
African Americans; African Americans--Social conditions; African Americans--Education; Segregation in education; Race relations; Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.); University of Louisville; Civil rights
Oral history interview with Mrs. Amelia Ray, conducted on August 25, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mrs. Ray discusses her early life and upbringing in Tennessee as well as her life in Louisville. Mrs. Ray moved to Louisville in 1934 and attended...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.); African American universities and colleges; Educational facilities; Automobiles;
Louisville Municipal College with other buildings in the background and cars in the road in the foreground. The entranceway to the building is visible, as is the lawn in front. Louisville Municipal College was the racially separate college for...
United States. Army--History; Federal aid to law enforcement agencies--United States; Riots--United States
The function of the army of the United States is to protect the country against all enemies foreign and domestic. Everyone is cognizant of the accomplishments of the American forces against its foreign enemies; but there is another work, of equal...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Social conditions; African American college teachers; African American educators; African American newspapers; Integration; Segregation in education; Race relations; Baptists;...
Oral history interview conducted with sociologist Charles H. Parrish, Jr. on December 1 and 14, 1976 and February 21, 1977 by Dwayne Cox and William Morison. Dr. Parrish discusses his father, Charles H. Parrish, Sr., who was a Baptist minister and...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Social conditions; Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.); Central High School (Louisville, Ky.); Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity; African Americans--Employment;...
Oral history interview conducted with James Shively on December 18, 1978 by Dwayne Cox. Mr. Shively focuses largely on his education in Louisville, at Louisville Central High School and the Louisville Municipal College, in the 1930s and 1940s. He...
A small podium has been erected on the Municipal Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky. One man stands at a microphone with other men on the podium and people are seated and standing around the stage to watch. This is the opening ceremony of the Municipal...
Louisville, Kentucky, approach to the Municipal Bridge. Municipal Bridge is now known as the Second Street Bridge and spans the Ohio River between Kentucky and Indiana. A car approaches from the bridge. A building at the right has an advertisement...
Toll booths on Louisville Municipal Bridge (now George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge), which spans the Ohio River and connects Louisville, Kentucky to Indiana. Vehicles enter and exit, and toll workers stand beside the booths. Handwritten on back of...
Officer standing in doorway of toll booth, man in car and another officer on motorcycle on Louisville Municipal Bridge (now George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge), which spans the Ohio River and connects Louisville, Kentucky to Indiana. Handwritten...
Laboratories; College students; African American college students; Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.);
Professor Henry Spence Wilson presides over students in a chemistry lab at Louisville Municipal College. Two women and three men work surrounded by shelves lined with glass bottles and equipment.
African Americans; African American educators; Segregation in higher education; Civil rights workers; African Americans--Education (Higher); Race relations; University of Louisville; University of Kentucky; Louisville Municipal College for Negroes...
Oral history interview conducted with Lyman T. Johnson on May 6, 1976 by Dwayne Cox. Mr. Johnson, a civil rights activist and educator focuses on Johnson’s involvement in the effort to integrate the University of Louisville and the University of...
Part of the construction of the Municipal Bridge (now George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge) is shown. A section in the middle of the bridge is still missing and pulleys are holding the other pieces in place. A number of long thin boats are...
Through the entryway and around the girders of the Louisville Municipal Bridge, now George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge, is a view of Second Street. To the right are the smokestacks of the Louisville Gas & Electric plant. Further along are a...
The steamboat Cincinnati passes under the Municipal Bridge (now George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge). A number of long thin boats are underneath the bridge. On the Louisville side of the bridge, stacks of materials can be seen near railroad tracks,...
Two men in suits and hats shake hands as a crowd watches. Between the two men is a ribbon. This is the opening ceremony for the Municipal Bridge in October 1929. The bridge was renamed the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge in 1949. The bridge...
A crowd of people fill the Municipal Bridge during its opening in October 1929. The bridge was later renamed the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge. The bridge spans the Ohio River from Second and Main Streets in Louisville, Kentucky, to Illinois...
Bridges; Construction; Smokestacks; Electric signs
This view captures a portion of the Municipal Bridge from Jeffersonville, Indiana to Louisville, Kentucky. Two concrete columns act as the base for large lights on the Indiana side of the bridge. The columns each have a tableau and the word Indiana...
A crowd of people lines the sidewalk in Jeffersonville, Indiana during the opening of the Municipal Bridge which spans the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. A police officer stands in the middle of the street at the beginning of the bridge....
