Title: Notable Kentucky African Americans Database http:www.uky.eduLibrariesNKAA
1Notable Kentucky African Americans
Databasehttp//www.uky.edu/Libraries/NKAA/
- University of Kentucky Libraries
- Images from Kentuckiana Digital Library
collections - (except where noted)
2Pullam (or Pullum) slave jail 149 North
Broadway Lexington, Kentucky photo
1886-1887 Griffin and Pullum one of the largest
slave trade firms in Kentucky Bullock
Photograph Collection
3last slave sale at courthouse Lexington,
Kentucky C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection,
1900-1954
4rock fences built by slaves Leestown Pike,
Fayette County, Kentucky C. Frank Dunn
Photograph Collections, 1900-1954
5Kentucky Negro Educational Association
(1877-1956) full text online journal at
Kentuckiana Digital Library - Etexts
6Bracktown Colored School 1901 Bracktown, Fayette
County, Kentucky Fayette County Schools
Photographic Collection
7Briar Hill Colored School 1901 Briar Hill,
Fayette County, Kentucky Fayette County Schools
Photographic Collection
8Uttingertown School No.5 1901 Uttingertown
(Fayette County), Kentucky Fayette County
Schools Photographic Collection
9Owisly Academy No.2 1901 G. Owisly,
Teacher South Elkhorn (Fayette County),
Kentucky Fayette County Schools Photographic
Collection
10Burdine Colored School 1921 Burdine (Jenkins),
Kentucky Jenkins Kentucky Photographic
Collection
11(now) Kentucky State University 1898 photo At
Work of the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky
Collection
12Janitors 1899 Kentucky State University Univers
ity of Kentucky general photographic prints
13Lincoln Institute (1912-1966) Established in
Shelby County in response to Kentucky Day Law
that segregated Berea College Ad from KNEA
Journal v.7, no.1
14Simmons University, Louisville, Kentucky (central
heating plant construction 1936) Goodman-Paxton
Photographic Collection
15Dotson High School Princeton, Kentucky
(construction 1938-1940) Goodman-Paxton
Photographic Collection
16Unidentified Belle Brezing Photographic
Collection 1868-1983
17Isaac S. Hathaway (1872-1967) sculptor (far
right) C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection
18Methodist Church Choir 1946 Russell Lee
Wheelwright, KY Photographic Collection
19Golden Jubilee Parade 1916 Louis Edward Nollau F
Series Photographic Print Collection
20groom and horse Dixiana Farm, Fayette County,
Kentucky C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection ,
1900-1954
21Furman Currington and son, miners 1946 Kenvir,
Harlan County, KY Russell Lee Photographic
Collection
22Open House Day, models Negro Womens Sewing
Center 1936 Louisville, Kentucky Goodman-Paxton
Photographic Collection
23WPA Nursery School Louisville, Kentucky Goodman-P
axton Photographic Collection 1934-1942
24WPA Nursery School Trimble County,
Kentucky Goodman-Paxton Photographic Collection
1934-1942
25dedicatory ceremony Danville, Kentucky
Goodman-Paxton Photographic Collection 1934-1942
26storm sewer work Newport, Kentucky Goodman-Paxton
Photographic Collection 1934-1942
27Domestic Life and Accident Insurance Co. Founded
by Green P. Hughes 1921 Ad from KNEA Journal
v.1,n.1, p.28
28Mammoth Life Insurance Company,
Lexington 1949 largest black-owned business in
Kentucky Selected Images of Lexington Collection
29Kentucky high school basketball game James Edwin
Ed Weddle Photographic Collection 1948-1981
30Muhammad Ali 1974 UK Homecoming Luncheon James
Edwin Ed Weddle Photographic Collection
31Alvin C. Hanley (1928-1987) college recruiter
(far left in 1978 photo) Portrait Print
Collection (U of KY)
32Moneta J. Sleet, Jr. (1926-1996) photographer 1st
African American to win Pulitzer Portrait Print
Collection (U of KY)
33Bernadette Lock 1st woman assistant coach in
Division I Mens NCAA Basketball Portrait
Print Collection (University of Kentucky)
34John T. Smith (1919-1994) 1st African American
from Kentucky to earn a doctorate at
UK University of Kentucky general photographic
prints
35Frank X Walker author, poet, educator from
Danville, Kentucky Photo by Tracy A. Hawkins
36 Renee Shaw host, co-producer, writer, managing
editor Connections with Renee Shaw KET Photo
from the Kentucky Educational Television website