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1965 Lexington ”Urban Renewal” and the Women of MLKjr Neighborhood
Public Group active 10 years, 6 months agoThis group is focusing on the 1965 urban renewal project that was rejected by the Martin Luther King Jr. Neighborhood Association. We plan to research the issues surrounding this action and the role of women in this decision. Why was the plan rejected? How did it affect the community? Who was in favor of it? Against it? Did the decision result from or impact civil rights issues of the day? Who were the women involved and did the neighborhood’s civic leaders expect a certain role for them to play in the process? See the project at: http://www.kywcrh.org/voices/neighbors
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Randolph Hollingsworth posted an update in the group
1965 Lexington ”Urban Renewal” and the Women of MLKjr Neighborhood 10 years, 9 months agoHey, have you all listened to the oral histories of the Lansdowne Neighborhood Association? Bev Futtrell and others conducted a series of interviews in the summer of 2009 with members of this predominately white neighborhood in the southern part of Lexington. The neighborhood started in 1954 in the middle of big farms on the west side of Tates…[Read more]
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Randolph Hollingsworth posted an update in the group
1965 Lexington ”Urban Renewal” and the Women of MLKjr Neighborhood 10 years, 10 months agoLuke’s interview of Mrs. Searcy is up for you to listen to – the description is on the “Voices from the Past” page, and the audio file is available at http://www.kywcrh.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/LeoraJuanitaSearcy-12_2_2010.mp3
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Randolph Hollingsworth started the forum topic Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement in the South in the group
1965 Lexington "Urban Renewal" and the Women of MLKjr Neighborhood: 10 years, 11 months agoDr. Cate Fosl emphasizes in her biography of Louisville activist Anne Braden (SUBVERSIVE SOUTHERNER, 2002), a generational split between the “Old Left” (of the 1930s and ’40s) and the “New Left” which emerged in the 1960s and ’70s as a sectarian and fragmented effort by diverse groups. Did you find this model in your research […]
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snakes1224 posted an update in the group
1965 Lexington ”Urban Renewal” and the Women of MLKjr Neighborhood 10 years, 11 months agoOur group has recently found information on the urban renewal era of Lexington that affected different areas of the city, particularly the East End. Our research has led us to find the minutes of the Lexington-Fayette City-County urban planning commission meetings from 1928-1974. We have also found maps drawn by designers assigned to work on the…[Read more]
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Randolph Hollingsworth posted an update in the group
1965 Lexington ”Urban Renewal” and the Women of MLKjr Neighborhood 10 years, 11 months agoThe .mp3 file of the oral history interview with Dr. Joyce Berry Hamilton via telephone with Allen Adams has been uploaded to the KYWCRH Media Library – you can download and listen to the interview from here: http://www.kywcrh.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Hamilton_Oct_22_10.mp3
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