A display featuring two figures hanging from gallows staged in front of the Humanities Building on the UofL's Belknap campus. There are pictures of men -- presumably executed by the Iranian regime -- by the gallows, as well as banners behind and...
African American journalists; African American politicians; African American newspapers; African Americans; Politics & government; Politicians; Race relations; Democratic Party (Ky.); Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Co. (Louisville, Ky.);...
Interview with William J. Ealy, Louisville newspaperman and political activist. This interview was conducted on August 5 and 22, 1977 by Dwayne Cox of the University of Louisville Oral History Center. Mr. Ealy discusses his early life and education...
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; African American singers; African American musicians; Nightclubs--Kentucky--Louisville; Singers; Musicians
Oral history interview with Robert Key, conducted October 25, 1977 by Robert Friedman. Mr. Key was a musician. He was born in Louisville but really launched his career in Chicago before touring as a singer. In this interview, he discusses his...
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--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; 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...
Bethel Baptist Church, a two-story brick church with a steeple, sloped roof, and turrets, was built in 1901 near the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The first floor windows and the...
Address: 208 S. Fifth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The multi-story brick, stone and granite building in the foreground is Stock Yards Bank and Trust. In years past it was known as the Louisville Trust Company. Their sign is still visible on the...
Address: 208 S. Fifth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The multi-story brick, stone and granite building in the foreground is Stock Yards Bank and Trust. In years past it was known as the Louisville Trust Company. Their sign is still visible on the...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Theaters;
Playhouse theater. Originally built as a chapel for the Louisville Industrial House of Reform, it was purchased by the University of Louisville, circa 1923, as part of its acquisition of what later became known as Belknap Campus. The Playhouse was...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Theaters;
Front entrance of the Playhouse theater at the University of Louisville, at its original site. Originally built as a chapel for the Louisville Industrial House of Reform, it was purchased by the University of Louisville, circa 1923, as part of its...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Theaters; Stages (Platforms); Auditoriums;
Interior view of the Playhouse theater on its original site, showing the auditorium seats and curtain. Originally built as a chapel for the Louisville Industrial House of Reform, the Playhouse was purchased by the University of Louisville, circa...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Theaters; Trees;
Playhouse Theater seen from across Second Street. There are several trees featuring fall foliage in front of the white frame building. The crosswalk on Second Street is also visible. Originally built as a chapel for the Louisville Industrial House...
City & town life; Streets; Banks; Automobiles; Buildings; Historic buildings; Stores & shops
Address: 208 S. Fifth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. At the intersection of Fifth and Market Streets in downtown stands the Louisville Trust Building. Oversized arches mark the entries and are repeated several stories above with smaller arched...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Advertising; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Communication; Communication devices; Language; Slogans; Cities & towns; Night; Night photographs; Architecture; Buildings; Walls; Streets; Roads;...
Excerpt from the Survival series. "Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island...
Prints; Broadsides; Broadsides; Advertisements; Advertising; Language; Communication; Communication devices; Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Punctuation; Question marks
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Language; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Advertisements; Advertising; Slogans; Commercialism; Communication; Communication devices
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
"Although resident in America, Morley was the first winner of the Turner Prize in 1984. Funded by the 'Patrons of New Art' affiliated to London's Tate Gallery, this prize was subsequently awarded annually for 'outstanding contributions' to...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Photographs; Activists; Left-wing extremists; Terrorists; Dead persons; Death; Suicides; Social justice; Political issues; Politics & government; Protest movements; Opposition (Political science); Student movements;...
"[…] the German painter Gerhard Richter […] looked back mournfully on painting's loss of public function in his October 18, 1977 (1988), a cycle of 15 paintings which mimicked the appearances of blurred black-and-white photographs. Richter...
