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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 ...
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).
Goodlowtown, also referred to as Goodloetown, or Goodloe, is an African-American neighborhood that was established around 1871. Named after William Cassius Goodloe, the district was the largest of any black residential area in Lexington, Kentucky. [11] A total of 290 African-American families resided in these areas by 1880. [12]
Ruth Booker-Bryant fought hard for causes fighting for social and human rights. Throughout her career as a civil rights activist she was a part of multiple organizations and demonstrations fighting for better housing for Kentucky African Americans. Her first major role was being a VISTA coordinator for the West End Community Council from 1964 ...
Alberta Odell Jones (November 12, 1930 – August 5, 1965) was an African-American attorney and civil rights icon. She was one of the first African-American women to pass the Kentucky bar and the first woman appointed city attorney in Jefferson County. [1] She was murdered by an unknown person.
Violence against Black people was a fairly common occurrence, but in Corbin, the goal was total erasure. Barter Theatre challenged me to create a monologue, a dramatic piece performed by one actor.
Artishia Garcia Gilbert (1868–1904) (also known as Artishia Gilbert-Wilkerson) was an African American physician who was likely the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in the U.S. state of Kentucky. After earning her undergraduate and master's degrees in Kentucky, Gilbert earned her medical degree in Washington, D.C.
He was the first African-American to be elected into the Kentucky legislature. [9] He went on to serve six two-year sessions in total from 1936 until 1946. [9] Anderson worked to pass legislation outlawing public hanging in Kentucky and to provide state aid for African Americans seeking higher degrees out-of-state due to Kentucky segregation laws.