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…volunteer group called Citizens Metropolitan Planning Council, also as a chairman of a committee for the Louisville Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and was a member of the…
…Education. African American churches. African American cooking. African American singers. African Americans. African Americans – Education – Kentucky. African Americans – Housing – Kentucky. African Americans – Medical care. African…
…Screenshot of the First American West website First American West An NEH-supported reboot of the original online collection of letters, financial records, sermons, books, maps, and objects relating to the…
…Director of Collections and Research, Dr. Patrick Lewis, WLKY 32, July 13, 2023 Sylvia Goodman, “Kentucky institutions begin to make progress repatriating Native American remains,” featuring the Filson’s Native American…
…v. Hendrick, et al Folder 175: Lawsuits – West v. West Folder 176: Lawsuits – West v. West, Correspondence and Miscellaneous Folder 177: Lawsuits – Miscellaneous Folder 178: Legislature Folder…
…Agriculture – United States – 19th century American fiction – 19th century American fiction – Women authors Autographs Banks and banking – United States Booksellers and bookselling Buckner, Simon Bolivar,…
…1901 West Muhammad Ali Blvd in the early 2000s. Both the Evan family and the Hammond-Morton’s attended this church. The Treyton Oak Towers were built in 1982 at 211 West…
…Times / Louisville Weekly Times 1855: April 11; Aug. 1, 15 West End Weekly News 1935-1941 (entire years) 1942: Jan. 2-end of year 1943-1951 (entire years) 1952: Jan.-June 26 Western…
…conflict—instead, they were forced north and west through the slow, systematic bureaucracy of white settlement. Feeling entitled to take the land, settlers began to establish land claims that ignored Indigenous…
…then Western State Hospital in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, for six weeks. In the meantime, Sam moved in with his maternal grandfather, William “Toddy” Wilson Mitchell (1881-1963), at 1299 Willow Avenue in…
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