Two interviews with businessman and civic leader C. Waitman Taylor Jr. of Owensboro, KY. The interviews document the movement in the 1960s toward industrialization of a small, rural county - Hancock County - on the Ohio River in the west central part of Kentucky.
Owensboro (Ky.)
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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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The staff of the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer interviewed residents in the Owensboro area about their lives in the first half of this century. The interviews were collected to be excerpted in a special oral history series, A Generation Remembers, published in 1986.
Topics include the...
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This collection began with the Kentucky Oral History Commission's effort to establish oral history programs in each of the state's 120 counties. County libraries worked with local volunteers to collect interviews. Since 1987, county oral histories have been generated primarily by recipients of...
