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1960 Presidential Election Oral History Project (Kentucky History Oral History Collection) |
This project focuses on the religious issues of the presidential election of 1960, specifically in Kentucky. Due to the spirit of anti-Catholicism as a result of the Ku Klux Klan's influence, John F. Kennedy lost the support of Kentucky. |
Baptists, Catholic Church, Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973, Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963, Ku Klux Klan, Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994, Presidents--Election, Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944 |
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1967 Open Housing Movement in Louisville, Kentucky Oral History Project (Kentucky History Oral History Collection) |
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 black access to public accommodations and their quality. |
1967 Open Housing Movement, childhood, Civil rights movements, Ewing, Priscilla, Louisville (Ky.), Powers, Georgia Davis, 1923-, Race discrimination, Segregation |
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1970 University of Kentucky Student Protest Oral History Project (Charles T. Wethington University of Kentucky Oral History Collection) |
The complete collection record can be accessed on SPOKEdb, the Nunn Center's online collection catalog: http://kentuckyoralhistory.org/series/18721/1970-university-kentucky-student-protest-oral-history-project |
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970, Student movements, Student movements--Kentucky--Lexington, Student protesters, student protests, University of Kentucky, University of Kentucky--History |
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50th Anniversary of the Capitol Floral Clock |
Interviewees discuss the creation of the Capitol Floral Clock on the Kentucky Capitol grounds and general history of the landscaping the Capitol. These interviews were undertaken as a part of the 50th anniversary of the installation of the Capitol Floral Clock in partnership with the Kentucky Division of Historic Properties. |
Capitol Floral Clock, commemorations, Frankfort (Ky.), Garden Club of Kentucky, Gardening, Greenhouses, Kentucky Capitol Grounds, Kentucky Division of Historic Properties |
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A Generation Remembers |
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. |
1937 Flood, Daviess County (Ky.), Depressions, Owensboro (Ky.), Tobacco, Transportation |
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A Generation Remembers |
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. |
1937 Flood, automobiles, Childbirth, coal ining Curing, Coal mines, Daviess County (Ky.), Depressions, Education |
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A History of Hummel Industries Incorportated |
Interview with Nancy Baird, former Kentucky History Specialist in the Department of Library Special Collections at WKU, conducted by Kimberly Schmitt. |
Concrete, Construction, Hummel Industries, Masonry |
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A. B. "Happy" Chandler Oral History Collection (A. B. "Happy" Chandler Oral History Collection) |
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, born in 1898 in Corydon, served in the Kentucky state senate (1929--1931), was lieutenant governor (1931--1935) and governor (1935--1939, 1955--1959) of Kentucky, was appointed United States senator in 1939 and elected for a second term in 1942, and was a major league baseball commissioner (1945--1951). |
, , A.B. Chandler, Athletes--United States, Baseball, Baseball commissioners, Baseball--Management, Baseball--United States, Governors--Kentucky, Legislators--United States |
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A. B. "Happy" Chandler: General Oral History Project (A. B. "Happy" Chandler Oral History Collection) |
This project includes miscellaneous interviews regarding the life and career of Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler. |
Politics and government |
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A. B. "Happy" Chandler: Political Career Oral History Project (A. B. "Happy" Chandler Oral History Collection) |
The complete collection record can be accessed on SPOKEdb, the Nunn Center's online collection catalog: http://kentuckyoralhistory.org/series/18785/b-happy-chandler-political-career-oral-history-project |
Athletes--United States, Athletics--United States, Baseball--Management, Baseball--United States, Chandler, Happy, 1898-1991, Governors--Kentucky, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate, Legislators |
