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The MKULTRA project was under the direct command of Dr. Sidney Gottlieb of the Technical Services Division. [136] The project received over $25 million, and involved hundreds of experiments on human subjects at eighty different institutions. In a memo describing the purpose of one MKULTRA program subprogram, Richard Helms said:
The event, which included partner organizations such as Kentucky African Americans Against Cancer, also had music, vendors, food trucks, a financial literacy program hosted by Republic Bank and ...
Doris Yvonne Wilkinson (June 13, 1936 – June 23, 2024) was an American sociologist from Lexington, Kentucky, who was an instigator of racial integration at the University of Kentucky as the first African American to graduate from the University of Kentucky in 1958 as an undergraduate student. At the University of Kentucky, she was the ...
Georgia Davis Powers, first African American Kentucky senator, (1923–2016) Moneta Sleet Jr., first African American Pulitzer Prize winner in photography (1926–1996) [9] Allen Allensworth, chaplain (1842–1914) bell hooks, author, academic, essayist, activist, born in Kentucky and came back to her land (1952–2021).
The Commonwealth of Kentucky has an overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic ancestral origin, according to the US Census Bureau official statistics the largest ancestry is American totalling 20.2%, an ancestral identification used by Old Stock English and Scots-Irish Americans in the Upland South whose families have been in the United States for hundreds of years.
The Black Bottom Historic District is a historic African American community located in Russellville, Kentucky. [1] It is bounded by E. 5th and 7th Sts., Bowling Green Rd. and Morgan St. [ 2 ] Civil rights activist Charles Neblett worked in the neighborhood.
Robert Fox (c. 1846–1933) was an African-American activist who sparked a civil rights battle in Louisville, Kentucky in October 1870 by entering a segregated streetcar. He was born in Kentucky to Albert and Margaret Fox [1] and worked as an undertaker and a grocer. He died in 1933. [citation needed]
Mary Ellen Britton (1855–1925) was an American physician, educator, suffragist, journalist and civil rights activist from Lexington, Kentucky.Britton was an original member of the Kentucky Negro Education Association, which formed in 1877.