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Title Freedom on the border : an oral history of the civil rights movement in Kentucky / [compiled and edited by] Catherine Fosl and Tracy E. K'Meyer
Published Lexington, Ky. : Univ. Press of Kentucky, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Series Kentucky remembered, an oral history series
Kentucky remembered.
Contents 1. Life under segregation. Profile : Jesse Crenshaw -- 2. Desegregation in education -- 3. Opening public accommodations. Profile : Helen Fisher Frye -- 4. Open housing -- 5. Economic opportunity. Profile : Julia Cowans -- 6. Black consciousness, black power. Profile : J. Blaine Hudson -- 7. Black political power
Summary Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost. Many of those stories, however, have been preserved thanks to the dozens of civil rights activists across Kentucky who shared their memories in the wide-ranging oral history project from which this volume arose. Through their collective memories and the efforts of a new generation of historians, the stories behind the marches, vigils, court cases, and other struggles to overcome racial discrimination are finally being brought to light. In Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Right
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296) and index
Notes English
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Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Kentucky -- Politics and government -- 20th century
African American civil rights workers -- Kentucky -- Interviews
Civil rights workers -- Kentucky -- Interviews
African American civil rights workers -- Kentucky -- Biography
Civil rights workers -- Kentucky -- Biography
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
African American civil rights workers
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Politics and government
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Politics and government
Race relations
SUBJECT Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Kentucky -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Subject Kentucky
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Interviews
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Fosl, Catherine.
K'Meyer, Tracy Elaine.
ISBN 9780813173634
0813173639
9780813139012
0813139015
1283233649
9781283233644
9786613233646
6613233641