Independent filmmaker Joanna Hay documents the history of Frankfort's Grand Theatre, Frankfort's historically Black theatre. Efforts are currently underway to revitalize, renovate, and reopen the Grand Theatre. Some of the topics discussed are segregation, growing up in Frankfort, working at...
Segregation
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This project includes raw audio & video used to make the documentary Living the Story (an extension of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Oral History Project).The raw footage was also edited to create hour long videos highlighting some of the individuals interviewed for the "Living the...
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In the summers of 1997, 1998, and 1999, an oral history project was conducted by local high school students documenting African American history in Owensboro. Topics covered in the interviews ranged from life under segregation, World War II, the Great Depression, Jazz, local sports, and...
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In this collection of interviews, interviewees discuss growing up in a segregated Louisville, the nature and extent of this segregation, the nature and palpability of race-based discrimination in Louisville juxtaposed against the more intense discrimination experienced in the Deep South, and...
