Browse Items By "Subject" (223 Headings)

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1st African American Families in Town (6)

1st African American Families in Town, Community, or County (8)

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Accountants, Bookkeepers, Certified Public Accountants, Stenographers (15)

Activists, Civil Rights (274)

Actors, Actresses (67)

African American Schools in Kentucky (Counties A-Z) (10)

Agriculturalists, Agriculture, Produce (16)

Alcohol (11)

Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada (11)

Appalachian, Affralachian

Appointments by Kentucky Governors (36)

Appointments by U.S. Presidents/Services for U.S. Presidents (41)

Architects (12)

Arson, Arsonist, Set Fire Intentionally (16)

Artists, Fine Arts (57)

Association of Colored Women's Clubs (23)

Athletes, Athletics (48)

Authors (197)

Automobile Dealerships and Factories (9)

Automobile Races, Race-car Drivers (5)

Aviators (11)

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Bakers, Cooks and Chefs (43)

Balls, Promenades, Socials (3)

Bankers, Banks, Finance, Financial Advisors (33)

Barbers (50)

Baseball (72)

Basketball (113)

Bed and Breakfast, Hotels, Inns

Bed and Breakfast, Hotels, Inns, Lodges (5)

Benevolent Societies (22)

Bicycles, Cyclist, Cycling, Wheelmen (6)

Biologists (3)

Blacksmiths (24)

Blind, Visually Impaired (8)

Board of Education (34)

Body Building

Bowlers and Bowling (3)

Boxers, Boxing (31)

Bus Transportation: Employees, Owners, Segregation (7)

Businesses (286)

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Care of the Elderly (8)

Carpenters (21)

Cartographers

Chemists (7)

Children's Books and Music (8)

Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco, Smoking (12)

Circus (3)

Civic Leaders (114)

Collectibles (4)

Colonies, Colonization (17)

Colored Fairs, Black Expos, and Chautauquas (32)

Colored Notes in Kentucky Newspapers (12)

Colored Public Libraries in Kentucky (21)

Communities (189)

Community Centers and Cultural Centers (25)

Confederate Soldiers - U.S. Civil War (3)

Construction, Contractors, Builders (16)

CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) (9)

Corrections and Police (106)

Cosmetologists, Beauty Shops, Hairdressers, Beauty Supplies (19)

Court Cases (109)

Cross Dressing, Dress in Drag (5)

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Deaf and Hearing Impaired (5)

Dentists (13)

Directories (9)

Dressmakers, Seamstresses, Milliners (12)

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Early Settlers (26)

Education and Educators (770)

Emancipation Day / Juneteenth Celebrations (17)

Employment Services (13)

Engineers (13)

Errors

Executions (14)

Exodusters [African Americans migrating West around Reconstruction Era] (14)

Explorers (4)

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Farms, Farming, Farmers (75)

Farriers, Horseshoes, Hoof Care (3)

Fathers (66)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (6)

Firefighters (16)

First City Employees and Officials (1960s Civil Rights Campaign) (31)

Fish and Wildlife, Forestry (4)

Football (64)

Fraternal Organizations (138)

Free African American Slave Owners (6)

Freedom (298)

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Gambling, Lottery (10)

Genealogy, History (24)

Golf and Golfers (9)

Grade Schools and High Schools in Kentucky (303)

Grandparents (36)

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Higher Education Before Desegregation, Kentucky (52)

Historians (32)

Hoaxes (7)

Hospitals and Clinics: Employment, Founders, Ownership, Incidents (65)

Housing Authority, The Projects (19)

Housing, Fair Housing, Open Housing, Housing Agencies (48)

Human Rights Commissions (Outside Kentucky) (2)

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Immigration (12)

influenza (3)

Inheritance (15)

Insurance Companies, Insurance Sales (33)

Interracial Marriage and State Laws (10)

Inventors (20)

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Jewelers, Watchmakers

Jim Crow (9)

Jockeys, Horsemen, Horse Breeders, Trainers, Betting, and The Derby (120)

Journalists, Newspapers, Magazines, Book Publishers, Music Publishers (211)

Jubilees (3)

Judges (31)

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Kentucky African American Churches (145)

Kentucky Commission on Human Rights (9)

Kentucky Land Grants (6)

Kentucky Newspaper Project

Killed by Lightning (3)

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Lawyers (108)

Legislators (Outside Kentucky) (24)

Legislators, Kentucky (27)

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, ... (12)

Liberia, Liberian Presidents and Diplomats (31)

Librarians, Library Collections, Libraries (99)

Logging, Lumbering, Lumber Business, Lumber Employees (6)

Lynchings (15)

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Martial Arts (3)

Mayors (19)

Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering (12)

Medical Field, Health Care (175)

Mexico and Kentucky (8)

Migration East (55)

Migration North (711)

Migration Outside the U.S. and Canada (86)

Migration South (140)

Migration West (259)

Military and Veterans (294)

Miners, Mines, and Steel Mills (37)

Ministers, Pastors, Preachers, Religion and Church Work (269)

Minstrel and Vaudeville Performers (48)

Miss Kentucky, Homecoming Queens, Beauty Contests and Pageants (8)

Mothers (47)

Movies and Films (52)

Musicians, Opera, Singers, Song Writers (260)

My Old Kentucky Home (2)

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NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) (82)

National Council of Negro Women (4)

National Resources (6)

National Youth Administration (NYA) (5)

Negro Business League (13)

Nicodemus (6)

Notary Public (7)

Nurses (30)

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Olympics: Athletes, Games, Events (10)

Oral History Collections (35)

Orphans and Orphanages in Kentucky (23)

Other (6)

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Parks and Resorts (36)

Pharmacists, Pharmacies (18)

Photographers, Photographs (35)

Physicists (3)

Plumbers (4)

Poets (56)

Politicians, Politics, Appointments and Elections (265)

Pool Halls, Kentucky (3)

Postal Service (40)

Presidents, National Presidential Candidates and Party Nominees (12)

Prison Laborers (2)

Pullman Porters (11)

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Quilters (3)

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Race Categories (9)

Radio (31)

Railroad, Railway, Trains (41)

Realtors, Real Estate Brokers, Real Estate Investments (34)

Researchers (7)

Resources Dedicated to Kentucky African Americans [Statewide] (8)

Rioting, Insurrections, Panics, Protests in Kentucky (29)

Riots and Protests Outside Kentucky (28)

Rugby

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Scouts (Boys and Girls) (10)

Sculptors (4)

Settlement House Movement in Kentucky (4)

Shoes: Finishers, Makers, Repairers, Shiners, Stores (43)

Sickle Cell Anemia (3)

Skating Rinks (9)

Slave Injury and Death Reimbursement and Insurance (4)

Slave Owners, Slaves, Free Blacks, Free Mulattoes in Kentucky, 1850-1870 [by county A-C] (35)

Slave Owners, Slaves, Free Blacks, Free Mulattoes in Kentucky, 1850-1870 [by county D-J] (37)

Slave Owners, Slaves, Free Blacks, Free Mulattoes in Kentucky, 1850-1870 [by county K-M] (37)

Slave Owners, Slaves, Free Blacks, Free Mulattoes in Kentucky, 1850-1870 [by county N-Z] (37)

Slave Trade (U.S.) (7)

Slavery in Kentucky, Sources (46)

Social Workers (40)

Sociologists and Social Scientists (13)

Spelling Bees

Suicide (12)

Sunday School (21)

Swimmers, Swimming, Swimming Facilities (7)

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Tailors (11)

Telegraph

Telephone Company Employees, Telephone Inventions, Telephones and Race (6)

Television (29)

Tennis (4)

Theater: Companies, Education, Exhibitions, Performers, and Performances in Kentucky (24)

Theaters [outside Kentucky] (3)

Track and Field (14)

Tuberculosis: Care and Deaths (22)

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Underground Railroad: Conductors, Escapes, Organizations, Research (28)

Undertakers, Cemeteries, Coroners, and Obituaries (79)

Union Organizations (23)

United Negro College Fund (UNCF) (3)

Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) (7)

Urban Leagues (35)

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Ventriloquist

Voting Rights (28)

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Waiters, Waitresses (17)

Welfare (Social Services) Organizations (24)

Women's Army Corps (WACs) (12)

Women's Groups and Organizations (165)

Works Progress Administration (WPA) / Work Projects Adminstration (WPA) (9)

Wrestling, Wrestlers (4)

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Yearbooks [Online]

YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) (19)

YMCA Black Achievers

YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) (18)

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Zoologists (2)