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Kentucky Historical Society Publications Provide Resources

on African American Topics  

The Register and Kentucky Ancestors Give Insights for Black History Month   

FRANKFORT, KY (January 18, 2005) - The Kentucky Historical Society’s quarterly publications, The Register and Kentucky Ancestors, offer rich resources for the upcoming Black History Month focus in February.

Over the past five years, dozens of articles featuring African American topics and people have been featured in these publications provided to members of the Kentucky Historical Society. Reprints of the articles are available upon request (for a $.50 per page fee) to the general public.

“The Register is one of the richest sources of materials on Kentucky African Americans,” notes the publication’s editor, Ken Williams. The Register is a quarterly scholarly journal which features topics related to Kentucky history.

Kentucky Ancestors, a publication of Kentucky related genealogical research also has recently featured African American families.

A list of recent articles from both publications featuring African American topics appears below, as well as a link to ordering information from the Kentucky Historical Society Web site at www.history.ky.gov.

Articles from The Register include:

·          “James Blythe and the Slavery Controversy in the Presbyterian Churches of Kentucky, 1791-1802.” Winter 2004, pp. 13-38.

·          “Slavery, the Civil War, and Jefferson Davis: An Interview with William J. Cooper Jr. and Charles P. Roland.” Autumn 2003, pp. 401-56.

·          “‘I Don’t Fear Nothing in the Shape of Man’: The Civil War and Texas Border Letters of Edward Francis, United States Colored Troops.” Autumn 2003, pp. 457-78.

·          “The Fayette County School Integration Controversy, 1971-72: Removing the Vestiges of Segregation.” Summer 2003, pp. 243-74.

·          “Father John Thayer: Catholic Antislavery Voice in the Kentucky Wilderness.” Summer 2003, pp. 275-96.

·          “Slavery Ideology and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky.” Winter/Spring 2003, pp. 93-108.

·          “The Removal of Blacks from Corbin in 1919: Memory, Perspective, and the Legacy of Racism.” Summer 2002, pp. 293-310.

·          “African American Migration to Louisville in the Mid-Twentieth Century.” Autumn 2001, pp. 363-84.

·          “An Interview with Governor Ned Breathitt on Civil Rights: ‘The most significant thing that I have ever had a part in.’” Winter 2001, pp. 5-51.

·          “Race Ideology and the Missionary Quest of Lucinda and Mary Helm: What Kentucky Patricians Thought They Knew about the ‘negro element.’” Winter 2001, pp. 53-68.

·          “Kentucky’s Separate Coach Law and African American Response.” Summer 2000, pp. 241-59.

·          “Creating Windows of Opportunity: Isaac E. Black and the African American Experience in Kentucky, 1848-1914.” Spring 2000, pp. 155-77.

·          “Berea College in the 1870s and 1880s: Student Life at a Racially Integrated Kentucky College.”  Winter 2000, pp. 1-22.

·          “The Paradox of Religious Segregation: White and Black Baptists in Western Kentucky, 1855-1900.” Summer 1999, pp. 305-23.

·          “William English Walling: Kentucky’s Unknown Civil Rights Hero.” [A founder of the NAACP] Autumn 1998, pp. 351-77.

·          ”Review Essay: New Scholarship on John G. Fee and the Early Days of Berea College.” Winter 1997, pp. 79-86.

·          “African Americans on the Kentucky Frontier.” Spring 1997, pp. 121-35.

·          “Louisville Free Public Library’s Racially Segregated Branches, 1905-35.” Spring 1995, pp. 1358.

·          “CCC Camp 510: Black Participation in the Creation of Mammoth Cave National Park.” Autumn 1995, pp. 446-64.

·          “The Shape of Slavery on the Kentucky Frontier, 1775-1800.” Winter 1994, pp. 1-23.

·          “‘Meaningful Change and Unceasing Continuity’: An Essay Review of A History of Kentucky Blacks.” [a 2-volume history published by KHS in 1992] Winter 1993, pp. 65-75.

·          “Kentucky Blacks: The Transition from Slavery to Freedom.” Autumn 1993, pp.403-19.

·          “Lexington’s Colored Orphan Industrial Home, 1892-1913.” Spring 1991, pp. 147-78.

·          “An End for Me, But a Beginning For Others: My Years of Research on Kentucky Blacks.” Autumn 1991, pp. 338-61.

·          “John G. Fee, Camp Nelson, and Kentucky Blacks, 1864-1865.” Winter 1987, pp. 29-45.

·          “Suspicion Versus Faith: Negro Criticisms of Berea College in the Nineteenth Century.” Summer 1985, pp. 237-66.

·          “Robert Ball Anderson: A Kentucky Slave, 1843-1864.” Summer 1983, pp. 255-73.

·          “The NAACP and Residential Segregation in Louisville, Kentucky, 1914-1917.” Winter 1980, pp. 39-54.

·          “The Recruitment of Negro Soldiers in Kentucky, 1963-1965.” October 1974, pp. 364-90.

·          “Negro Politics and the suffrage question in Kentucky, 1866-1872.” April 1974, pp. 111-42.

·          “Victims of Circumstance: Negroes in a Southern Town [Lexington], 1865-1880.” July 1973, pp. 253-71.

·          “The Kentucky Press and the Negro Testimony Controversy, 1866-1872.”  January 1973, pp.29-50.

Articles from Kentucky Ancestors include:

·          “Civil War Pass of Sally Harris, Camp Nelson, 1863.” Volume 39, No. 1, p. 26.

·          “Two Freedman’s Bureau Apprenticeships, Bourbon County, 1866.” Volume 38, No. 2, pp. 104-5.

·          “African American Births, Lincoln County, 1854.” Volume 38, No. 1, pp. 8-13.

·          “Abstracts from The Farmer’s Friend, Russellville, 1809-10.” Volume 37, No. 2, pp. 78, 116.

·          “Dennis Doram and Diademia Taylor of Danville and their Family.” Volume 37, No. 1, pp. 2-4.

To order copies of these articles, click here or visit: http://history.ky.gov/Research/Publications_Request_Form.htm

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