"In the year before Pollock's premature death, Krasner made powerful collages, possibly drawing on the huge semi-abstract 'paper-cuts' that the veteran French Modernist Henri Matisse was producing around this time. In one of these collages she...
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...
Delacoosha, an estate in Pewee Valley, was owned by Albert Burge in the late nineteenth century. Annie Fellows Johnston was visiting the Burges when she met Hattie Cochran, Rebecca Porter, and the Old Colonel, George Washington Weissinger, and was...
The role of mothers, the constitution of families, and the power of their stories are the bedrock of my thesis, which is the first 90 pages of a novel entitled Playing House . In it, I hope to investigate the denotation and connotation of the words...
Well-known and widely reproduced full-length photogravure character portrait of actress Mrs. W. J. Florence in costume for the role of Mrs. General Gilflory in "The Mighty Dollar," which she performed six times at Macauley's Theatre: in...
Full-length character portrait of performer and producer Mrs. W. J. Florence in costume for the role of Mrs. General Gilflory in "The Mighty Dollar," which she performed six times at Macauley's Theatre: in January and November 1876;...
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...
