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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian...
Congratulations to Judi Jennings, Executive Director of Kentucky Foundation for Women , co-editor of a new book Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia which is due to be released on...
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Women's reproductive health in...
While Mary Breckinridge , the nurse-midwife who reformed maternal-child and family health by founding the Frontier Nursing Service, is more famous, we should also celebrate Peggy McDowell Curlin from...
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, How to raise a woman of the...
Found a beautiful autobiographical statement in a footnote within an essay, Boone Station and the Pioneer National Monument Act , by Donna Dodd Terrell Jones, B.A., M.A., J.D. in The Journal of...
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And I have added lots to Kidd’s biography on Wikipedia – check it out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Street_Kidd
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Women and the WPA
Check out my project on images of Kentucky women (http://www.kywcrh.org/projects/wpa) in a visual exhibit of photographs commissioned by the Works Progress Administration Visual Exhibit. I’ve...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, Sallie Bingham project
Thanks for this contribution! (And, it looks like Ms. Bingham’s Wikipedia article needs someone to work on it – check out the Wiki Editors’ comments at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Bingham)
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Segregation in Kentucky in the early...
There were two distinct societies in Kentucky in the early twentieth century: a society with artifacts and vistas that only African-Americans could access and a separate one that only Whites enjoyed....
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, Mae Street Kidd, Passing for Black
What a terrific experience with the reading group discussion today – and this collaborative writing effort on the post above was a fantastic idea! So proud of the leadership roles taken and what the...
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Black women artist/activists of note
The Kentucky Foundation for Women sent a message recognizing the rich history and legacy of African-Americans across the Bluegrass by highlighting two women who made important contributions to art and...
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Scientific Racism, Germ Theory and...
Segregation blossomed in the U.S. not just from a rigid adherence to codes of behaviors but also from so-called scientific findings based on race. In the early twentieth century, new disciplines of the...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Enid Yandell, Kentucky Artist-Activist
Cross-posted from the Kentucky Foundation For Women’s Hot Flash: E-News For Everyone (Marc 22, 2013) IN HONOR OF WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH KFW CELEBRATES KENTUCKY SCULPTOR ENID YANDELL “It is the...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, Collins Project Progress
very exciting lead! great job in history-sleuthing… this is exactly how many of the great histories come about, just one step after another just like this.
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This is a wonderfully creative way to involve everyone in the book discussion and to make it a personal learning experience for each of your classmates ~ very impressive. And, on top of that, by...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, Martha Layne Collins
Dr. Karen Tice, department chair of UK Gender & Women’s Studies, has written and given talks on the historical and theoretical roles of beauty queens in our society. I’ve alerted her to your...
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Celebrating the Fair Housing Law...
Remembering the bravery of all the Kentuckians who protested and put their own lives (and the lives of their families) on the line for the freedom to choose where you want to live. We traveled to...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, New Wikipedia Articles on Kentucky...
With congratulations to the terrific UK Honors Program students who wrote them, I list the newest Wikipedia articles on Kentucky women’s history below: Viola Davis Brown (<a...
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Great summary of the field trip! And here’s a list of fair housing laws in Kentucky to consider – http://kchr.ky.gov/housingdis.htm
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Great summary of the field trip! and I’m curious to learn more about how you feel the First Ladies exhibit (the dolls created to show their dresses worn during their husbands’ inauguration ball)...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, Visit to the Capitol
Great summary of your experiences on the field trip to Frankfort! and here’s a list of housing laws for us to continue thinking about as we remember the legacy of Mae Street Kidd:...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, Trip to Frankfort
Great summary of your experiences on the field trip to Frankfort! Here are some housing laws to think about as we consider Anne Braden’s legacy for Kentucky civil rights:...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, Inspiration from Audrey
Excellent points ~ I’m looking forward to having Doug Boyd come to our class on Tuesday to talk about how you will help to make her oral histories more accessible (one is over 3 hours long!) and bring...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, Martha Layne Collins
I’ve learned over the years that if I contact someone who doesn’t know me – but has a mutual interest – and say, “I need your help with something” rather than “Can you do something for me,” I’m likely...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, EXTRA EXTRA Anne Braden Headlines
Great book group session! Enjoyed the presentations and hope you continue to think about those big questions about the role of radical thought in the life of a civil rights activist. It’s often easier...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, The Work is Far From Over
Congratulations! This is a wonderful epilogue ~ and words of wisdom from which we can all learn.
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, Final Thoughts
Fantastic! So looking forward to seeing your project!
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, Wrapping up the Semester
It is so great listening to your interview with Suzy Post – almost as if I were there with you! You brought out the very best in her as she knew you were listening in an active and respectful way. You...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, End of the Year
This is wonderful to see! and looking forward to reading your project. It was a difficult task to take on, and I thought you all very brave to persist and do it.
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Kentucky Black Heritage now online
The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights recently announced that its out-of-print history reference book, Kentucky’s Black Heritage: The Role of the Black People in the History of Kentucky from Pioneer...
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, WPA Pack Horse Library Project, 1936-43
Though Kentucky politicians today and in the past have regularly bemoaned intervention from outside state, women and minorities benefit from the influx of federal funds. One of the most interesting...
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Celebrating Women's Equality Day
Women’s Equality Day is on August 26th – a date selected by Congress in 1971 to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting all women the right to vote across the...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth commented on the post, My Friend Suzy
What a terrific post – very inspirational – thank you!
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, AAUW Community Action Grant proposal...
After several weeks of planning and creating new partnerships here in central Kentucky, I submitted an AAUW Community Action Grant for 2014 that features our KYWCRH.org initiative. The title of the...
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Midway Woman's Club records - an update
With gratitude to Reinette Jones of the UK Libraries and hearty congratulations to my former UK History students Angelia Pulley, Kyle Shaw, and Brad Wexler, I am proud to announce that the finding...
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, New Project in the Works - Indexing...
Good news alert! The Kentucky Oral History Commission of the Kentucky Historical Society has awarded us funding for a project to index the oral history interviews from the “Blacks in Lexington Oral...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Race Matters Training for Fayette...
As part of the training sessions for the Race, Community and Child Welfare (RCCW) Fayette County (see more at the RCCW website), I presented on the “History of Racism and Anti-Racist Activism in...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Interviews of Black Women in Central...
With many thanks to Danielle Gabbard and the Kentucky Oral History Commission, the public can now listen to the voices of Black women of Central Kentucky in the online system created by the Louie B....
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And – if you get a chance … listen to the oral history tape in the UK Libraries (call number 79OH74 KH139) by the widow of Pastor W.A. Jones of Pleasant Green Baptist Church. According to the...
View ArticleRandolph Hollingsworth posted a new activity comment
And – if you get a chance … listen to the oral history tape in the UK Libraries (call number 79OH74 KH139) by the widow of Pastor W.A. Jones of Pleasant Green Baptist Church [note the error on the oral...
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Randolph Hollingsworth wrote a new post, Evelyn Williams, a great role model...
In 1995 the great Appalshop filmmaker Anne Lewis featured Mrs. Evelyn Williams (October 31, 1915 – December 13, 2002), a Kentucky woman whose wisdom and heroism continues to teach us great lessons in...
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