Notable Kentucky African Americans Database University of Kentucky Libraries Images from Kentuckiana Digital Library

Notable Kentucky African Americans Database

http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NKAA/

University of Kentucky Libraries

Images from Kentuckiana Digital Library collections(except where noted)

Pullam (or Pullum) slave jail149 North BroadwayLexington, Kentucky

photo1886-87

Griffin and Pullumone of the largest

slave trade firms in Kentucky

Bullock Photograph Collection

last slave sale

at courthouseLexington, Kentucky

C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection, 1900-1954

rock fences built by slaves

Leestown Pike, Fayette County, Kentucky

C. Frank Dunn Photograph Collections, 1900-1954

KNEA (1877-1956)

Kentucky Negro Educational Association

full text online journal Kentuckiana Digital Library - Etexts

Bracktown Colored School1901

Bracktown, Fayette County, Kentucky

Fayette County Schools Photographic Collection

Briar Hill Colored School1901

Briar Hill, Fayette County, Kentucky


Uttingertown School No.51901

Uttingertown (Fayette County), Kentucky


Owisly Academy No.2 1901

G. Owisly, TeacherSouth Elkhorn, Fayette County, Kentucky


Burdine Colored School 1921

Burdine (Jenkins), Kentucky

Jenkins Kentucky Photographic Collection

(now) Kentucky State University

1898 photo

At Work of the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky Collection

Janitors 1899

Kentucky State University

University of Kentucky general photographic prints

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

Simmons University, Louisville, Kentucky

(central heating plant construction 1936)

Goodman-Paxton Photographic Collection

Dotson High School

(construction 1938-1940)Princeton, Kentucky


Unidentified

Belle Brezing Photographic Collection 1868-1983

Isaac S. Hathaway (1872-1967)

sculptor (far right)

C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection

Wheelwright Methodist Church Choir1946

Wheelwright, Kentucky

Russell Lee: Wheelwright, KY Photographic Collection

Golden Jubilee Parade1916

Louis Edward Nollau F Series Photographic Print Collection

groom and horse

Dixiana Farm, Fayette County, Kentucky

C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection , 1900-1954

Furman Currington and son1946

mine workers in Kenvir, Harlan County, Kentucky

Russell Lee Photographic Collection

Open House Day at Negro Women’s Sewing Center1936

Louisville, Kentucky


WPA Nursery School

Louisville, Kentucky

Goodman-Paxton Photographic Collection 1934-1942

WPA Nursery School

Trimble County, Kentucky


downtown ceremony

Danville, Kentucky


storm sewer workers

Newport, Kentucky


Domestic Life and Accident Insurance Co.

Founded by Green P. Hughes

1921

Ad from KNEA Journal v.1,n.1, p.28

Mammoth Life Insurance CompanyLexington 1949

largest black-owned business in Kentucky

Selected Images of Lexington Collection

Kentucky high school basketball game

James Edwin Ed Weddle Photographic Collection 1948-1981

Muhammad Ali

1974 UK Homecoming Luncheon

James Edwin Ed Weddle Photographic Collection

Alvin C. Hanley (1928-1987)

college recruiter - far left in 1978 photo

Portrait Print Collection (U of KY)

Moneta J. Sleet, Jr. (1926-1996)

Photographer - 1st African American to win Pulitzer

Portrait Print Collection (University of Kentucky)

Bernadette Locke

1st woman assistant coach in

Division I Men’s NCAA Basketball

Portrait Print Collection (University of Kentucky)

John T. Smith (1919-1994)

1st African American from Kentucky to earn a doctorate at UK

University of Kentucky general photographic prints

Frank X Walker

author, poet, educator - from Danville, Kentucky

Photo by Tracy A. Hawkins

Renee Shaw

host, co-producer, writer, managing editor “Connections with Renee Shaw”

KET

Photo from the Kentucky Educational Television website

Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development2006

Publication available online

Documents

Notable Kentucky African Americans Database University of Kentucky Libraries Images from Kentuckiana Digital Library