Louisville Black Community Oral History Collection, 1977.

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Louisville Black Community Oral History Collection, 1977.

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This collection includes information on black businesses in Louisville, particularly in the west Walnut Street area, which served as Louisville's black business district during the age of segregation; other black neighborhoods, including Smoketown; black education in Louisville; and the history of Simmons University and Louisville Municipal College. Physicians discuss Red Cross Hospital, an all-black institution founded in 1899. Other topics are black religion and culture, open housing and other civil rights activities in the 1950s and 1960s, and black journalism in Louisville.

30 sound cassettes (23 hr., 40min.) : analog, stereo.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7942927

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.)

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Steiger, Charles 18..-1919 compositeur

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Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company.

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Louisville Free Public Library

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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 ...

University of Louisville

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