African Americans--Education--Kentucky--Louisville--History; Education--Kentucky--Louisville--History; Louisville Public Schools (Louisville, Ky.)--History; Literacy--Social aspects--Kentucky--Louisville--History
I conducted my dissertation research in the national, state, and local archives. Using Deborah Brandt's "Sponsors of Literacy" as a conceptual framework and Critical Race Theory as a theoretical framework, I offer Louisville, Kentucky as...
African Americans; African American business enterprises; African American Business people; Drugstores; Pharmacists; African American pharmacists; Urban renewal; Service stations; Standard Oil Company; Civil rights
Oral history interview with Frank Moorman, Sr., conducted on August 17, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Moorman was a businessman in Louisville's Walnut Street area. Mr. Moorman discusses his parents and grandparents, and his early life in Owensboro,...
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...
Invitation, with Chicago White Sox logo at top and image of ballpark at bottom and text at center reading: "The American League Base Ball Club of Chicago requests the honor of your presence at the Opening of White Sox Park. Friday afternoon,...
Eclipse Park on the day of the opening game at the new location, the northwest corner of Seventh Street and Kentucky Street, 1913. Handwritten on back of print: "Eclipse Park. N.W. corner 7th & Ky. - right field bleachers at extreme left....
Small boat on a river with a woods and what appears to be a cave opening in the background. There is a group of about five people in the boat. Published by Hatfield Brothers & Owsley, White Mills, Kentucky, around the turn of the 20th century....
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...
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...
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....
Buildings; Commercial facilities; Department stores; Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward, Fourth Street between Walnut and Liberty, Louisville, Kentucky; opening day 1920. Slightly diagonal photograph of Montgomery Ward, with a sign above its first floor saying its name on a windowless concrete panel; for the two floors...
Loews Theater, Fourth Street between Broadway & Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky. Written on back: "Loews Theater one of the castle-like side walls in the new theater." Side view of seats, left theater wall and left half of stage and...
Marquee for the Grand Theatre with ladders on the ground in front of the building. A sign hanging from the theater advertises the opening of the newly renovated building. Address: 6th Street and Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard),...
Rendering for 330-334 W. Market Street, never built. Bacon Dry Goods was the oldest department store in Louisville from its opening in 1845 until it was purchased by Dilliard's in 1998. This drawing shows the skyscraper proposed by Joseph &...
White two story house with balconied flat roof and two story square pillars. Domed window above screened entrance door. Four windowed double doors with low rectangular embellishments on top flank the entrance door, opening onto the porch. Labeled...
