Edward F. Prichard Oral History Project

One of the state's most influential leaders in politics and education, Edward F. Prichard, Jr. and his associates discuss Prichard family history and politics, Bourbon County life in the 1920s, Prichard's early interest in the law, the Ku Klux Klan and racial inequality, and union organizing activities in Harlan County in the 1930s, Additionally, Prichard discusses A. B. "Happy" Chandler, Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, the New Deal, conditions in Kentucky following World War II, Earle C. Clements, desegregation in Kentucky, television and politics, Bert T. Combs, state universities, the United States Senate election of 1962, and the role of lobbyists in state government. 

Interviews