Notable Kentucky African Americans Database http:www.uky.eduLibrariesNKAA

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Notable Kentucky African Americans
Databasehttp//www.uky.edu/Libraries/NKAA/

• University of Kentucky Libraries
• Images from Kentuckiana Digital Library
  collections
• (except where noted)

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Pullam (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
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last slave sale at courthouse Lexington,
Kentucky C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection,
1900-1954
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rock fences built by slaves Leestown Pike,
Fayette County, Kentucky C. Frank Dunn
Photograph Collections, 1900-1954
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Kentucky Negro Educational Association
(1877-1956) full text online journal at
Kentuckiana Digital Library - Etexts
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Bracktown Colored School 1901 Bracktown, Fayette
County, Kentucky Fayette County Schools
Photographic Collection
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Briar Hill Colored School 1901 Briar Hill,
Fayette County, Kentucky Fayette County Schools
Photographic Collection
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Uttingertown School No.5 1901 Uttingertown
(Fayette County), Kentucky Fayette County
Schools Photographic Collection
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Owisly Academy No.2 1901 G. Owisly,
Teacher South Elkhorn (Fayette County),
Kentucky Fayette County Schools Photographic
Collection
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Burdine Colored School 1921 Burdine (Jenkins),
Kentucky Jenkins Kentucky Photographic
Collection
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(now) Kentucky State University 1898 photo At
Work of the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky
Collection
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Janitors 1899 Kentucky State University Univers
ity of Kentucky general photographic prints
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Lincoln 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
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Simmons University, Louisville, Kentucky (central
heating plant construction 1936) Goodman-Paxton
Photographic Collection
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Dotson High School Princeton, Kentucky
(construction 1938-1940) Goodman-Paxton
Photographic Collection
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Unidentified Belle Brezing Photographic
Collection 1868-1983
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Isaac S. Hathaway (1872-1967) sculptor (far
right) C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection
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Methodist Church Choir 1946 Russell Lee
Wheelwright, KY Photographic Collection
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Golden Jubilee Parade 1916 Louis Edward Nollau F
Series Photographic Print Collection
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groom and horse Dixiana Farm, Fayette County,
Kentucky C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection ,
1900-1954
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Furman Currington and son, miners 1946 Kenvir,
Harlan County, KY Russell Lee Photographic
Collection
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Open House Day, models Negro Womens Sewing
Center 1936 Louisville, Kentucky Goodman-Paxton
Photographic Collection
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WPA Nursery School Louisville, Kentucky Goodman-P
axton Photographic Collection 1934-1942
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WPA Nursery School Trimble County,
Kentucky Goodman-Paxton Photographic Collection
1934-1942
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dedicatory ceremony Danville, Kentucky
Goodman-Paxton Photographic Collection 1934-1942
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storm sewer work Newport, Kentucky Goodman-Paxton
Photographic Collection 1934-1942
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Domestic Life and Accident Insurance Co. Founded
by Green P. Hughes 1921 Ad from KNEA Journal
v.1,n.1, p.28
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Mammoth Life Insurance Company,
Lexington 1949 largest black-owned business in
Kentucky Selected Images of Lexington Collection
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Kentucky high school basketball game James Edwin
Ed Weddle Photographic Collection 1948-1981
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Muhammad Ali 1974 UK Homecoming Luncheon James
Edwin Ed Weddle Photographic Collection
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Alvin C. Hanley (1928-1987) college recruiter
(far left in 1978 photo) Portrait Print
Collection (U of KY)
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Moneta J. Sleet, Jr. (1926-1996) photographer 1st
African American to win Pulitzer Portrait Print
Collection (U of KY)
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Bernadette Lock 1st woman assistant coach in
Division I Mens NCAA Basketball Portrait
Print Collection (University of Kentucky)
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John T. Smith (1919-1994) 1st African American
from Kentucky to earn a doctorate at
UK University of Kentucky general photographic
prints
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Frank X Walker author, poet, educator from
Danville, Kentucky Photo by Tracy A. Hawkins
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Renee Shaw host, co-producer, writer, managing
editor Connections with Renee Shaw KET Photo
from the Kentucky Educational Television website