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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.

Publisher:

University Press of Kentucky,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xv, 309 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--Kentucky--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--Kentucky--History--20th century.
Kentucky--History--History--20th century.
African Americans--Kentucky--Politics and government--20th century.
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.

Other Authors:

Fosl, Catherine.
K'Meyer, Tracy Elaine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-296) and index.

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:

In this book, Fosl and K'Meyer "gather the voices of more than one hundred courageous crusaders for civil rights, many of whom have never before spoken publicly about their experiences. These activists hail from all over Kentucky, offering a wide representation of the state's geography and culture while explaining the civil rights movement in their respective communities and in their own words."--Book jacket.

Series:

Kentucky remembered

ISBN:

0813125499 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813125497 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)261177657

LCCN:

2009000989

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)