Girl sits on bench looking out of the corner of her eye at a young man standing behind her. He holds an envelope with a heart on it. The two figures are stereotypucal caricatures of African Americans. This is a pop-up card; the young man can move...
African American high school students; High school girls; Academic achievement; Mathematics--Study and teaching (Secondary)
The underachievement of African American students in the mathematics classroom and the underrepresentation of African Americans in advanced mathematics courses and mathematics related career fields has been a concern for the mathematics education...
An overturned and dented car sits at the corner of Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard) and Eighth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A crowd of mostly African American men looks on. Many of them wear caps or hats and white shirts with jackets or...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. College of Education and Human Development; Educational facilities; Research facilities;
Entrance to the Woodford R. and Harriett B. Porter Building (College of Education and Human Development). There are trees near the entrance, as well as wooden benches and a street lamp. The building was originally referred to as the College of...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. College of Education and Human Development; Educational facilities; Research facilities;
Entrance to the Woodford R. and Harriett B. Porter Building (College of Education and Human Development). There are recently planted trees near the entrance, suggesting this image was made soon after the building was completed, in 1981. The...
An African American man with a gray beard and a young black man stand at a large stone gateway on the Woodburn farm in Woodford County, Kentucky. A lodge is visible just inside the gate. The Woodburn horse farm was owned and operated by the...
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...
Women; University of Louisville--Buildings; Covered walks; Theaters; Buildings;
A woman in a skirt suit, penny loafers and ankle socks leans against a beam of the roof over Garth Walk, the covered sidewalk which wound around the north side of the Playhouse. Constructed in 1932, Garth Walk was named after Mrs. Charles M. Garth,...
University of Louisville--Presidents; Radio stations; WLOU (Radio station : Louisville, Ky.); College presidents;
University of Louisville president Dr. John W. Taylor sits at a table with Mrs. John E. Messervy, president of the Louisville Broadcasting Co. and general manager of the newly established AM radio station WLOU; there are papers on the table in...
"A moving tribute to her mother, this work combines the personal and the political. The quilt includes a narrative - the witty story of the family of Aunt Jemima, most familiar as the stereotypical black 'mammy' but here a successful African...
Medicine--Research--Social aspects; Health and race--Research
Using content analysis, this study examines the use of race in health related journal articles from 2000 to 2005. Each of the articles pertained to African Americans and either access to health or quality of health. Selected articles for review...
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...
Baseball; Parkway Field (Louisville, Ky.); Contests; Watermelons; African Americans
Watermelon eating contest during baseball game at Parkway Field, Louisville, Kentucky. Six African American boys participate; grandstands filled with people in background. This image depicts African Americans in a stereotyped fashion that may be...
Address: 722 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. An African American man stands on the lawn of the Waller residence. An iron gate stands in front of the house and its lawn. The two-story building has windows which are topped with decorative...
Five rows of African American teenagers, male and female, stand wearing choir robes on the front steps of a building. A student in a wheelchair sits in front.
View down a row of men, some of them African American, digging a pit at a sewer construction site. Stacks of lumber and pipes are in front of the site at a row of houses.
Men; African Americans; Construction; Sewers; Streets; Buildings; Houses; Children
Men, including African Americans, at a sewer construction site digging a trench in the road in front of a row of houses. Dirt, lumber, and construction materials are on site. A boy sits on a barrel, and a man rides a bicycle.
