A generation remembers oral history project, 1986.

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A generation remembers oral history project, 1986.

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The staff of the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer interviewed residents in the Owensboro area about their lives in the first half of this century. Topics include the floods of 1913 and 1937, the winter of 1917-1918, the 1918 influenza epidemic, World Wars I and II, Prohibition, the Great Depression, the introduction of electricity to the area, and accounts of the first telephones, automobiles, airplanes, and televisions. Narrators talk about farming (including tobacco), coal mining (including mining accidents, labor unions, and the United Mine Workers of America), trapping, bootlegging, clothes, iceboxes, water, curing meat and preserving food, work, music, recreation, religion, education (including one-room schools), funeral practices, marriage customs, work, and transportation (especially trains). Other topics are medicine, illness, childbirth, home remedies, crimes, hangings, Night Riders, race relations, discrimination, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, "possum hunters," nickelodeons, general stores, women's suffrage, women in politics and sports, and German prisoners of war during World War II on Daviess County tobacco farms.

82 sound cassettes (ca. 72 hr.) : analog, mono.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer.

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Kentucky Oral History Commission

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Acquisitions policy: Under KRS 153.380, the Commission is authorized to coordinate, promote, and develop oral history programs around the state and to maintain a repository for oral history collections. From the description of Repository description, 1900-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 191915461 ...

Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...

United mine workers of America

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Night Riders (Group)

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