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; Race relations; Civil rights demonstrations; Civil rights; Louisville Free Public Library; Girl Scouts; Libraries; Integration; African Americans--Social conditions
Oral history interview with Murray Atkins Walls and John Walls, conducted July 27, 1977 by Dwayne Cox. Most of the interview focuses on Murray Atkins Walls, although her husband, John Walls, is also an active participant. They were both involved in...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Social conditions; African American social workers; African American educators; African American college teachers; Segregation in education; Civil rights leaders; Lincoln Institute...
Oral history interview with Eleanor Young Love, conducted on October 2, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Dr. Love was a U of L professor and administrator, and sister of civil rights leader Whitney Young, Jr. Dr. Love discusses her parents, Laura and...
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. ...
African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; Race relations; Public relations; Discrimination in housing; Housing; African American legislators; Insurance agents; Women legislators; African American legislators; Kentucky--Politics and...
Oral history interview conducted with legislator Mae Street Kidd on October 10, November 11, and December 5, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. Ms. Kidd discusses her life, including her childhood growing up in Bourbon County. Kidd attended the Lincoln...
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...
A woman in a long dress with a sign reading 'Dry' pinned to her shoulder stands in the street with three children, holding as placard reading "Don't let the Saloon have a chance at us." The woman may be Jean Thomas, and the messages...
Animals; Money; Boston Tea Party, 1773; Demonstrations; Costumes; Children; Men; Women; Snow; Play (Recreation); Kites; Domestic life; Reading; Sewing; Monks; Rescue work; Windmills; Indians of North America
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the dog dropping something in water, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: dog...
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: large building built in hill and valley; white man wearing loincloth and carrying bow and arrows among indigenous people, possibly setting up sacrificial altar; scene of Boston Tea...
A row of men stand behind a row of women sitting at a table. A sign behind them read, in part, Telephone Workers on Strike. N.F. T. W. Title supplied by cataloger.
View from street-level and rooftops of women picketing at the Highland and Jackson Wabash exchanges of Southern Bell Telephone Company. The women and a few men walk in rows on the sidewalk in front of the buildings.
A group of women protest in front of a brick building under construction. One sign reads ""Telephone workers on strike."" Text in bottom right corner: Raymond Dial Bldg. Louisville, KY. April 15, 1947.
Buses; Demonstrations; Students; University of Louisville--Football
View looking southwest of the 600 block of Jefferson Street as Louisville Police prepare to tow cars blocking the space reserved for the two busloads of University of Louisville student protesters coming to the County Courthouse to lobby for Paulie...
Buses; Demonstrations; Students; University of Louisville--Football
View looking south in the 600 block of Jefferson Street of the first busload of University of Louisville student protestors coming to the County Courthouse to lobby for Paulie Miller as football coach.
