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Book Crawfish Bottom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas Boyd
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2011-08-01
  • ISBN : 0813134099
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Crawfish Bottom written by Douglas Boyd and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. “Craw’s” reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city’s Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd’s Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of the controversial community that ultimately saw four-hundred families displaced. Using oral histories and firsthand memories, Boyd not only provides a record of a vanished neighborhood and its culture but also demonstrates how this type of study enhances the historical record. A former Frankfort police officer describes Craw’s residents as a “rough class of people, who didn’t mind killing or being killed.” In Crawfish Bottom, the former residents of Craw acknowledge the popular misconceptions about their community but offer a richer and more balanced view of the past.

Book Community Memories

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  • Author : Winona L. Fletcher
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2003-11-07
  • ISBN : 9780916968304
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Community Memories written by Winona L. Fletcher and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2003-11-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While this is a glimpse of Frankfort's African American community, it has much in common with other Black communities, especially those in the South. Although much in the collection that produced this work - both photographic and oral history - is nostalgic, it ultimately demonstrates that change is constant, producing both negative and positive results."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Charter  Ordinances and Resolutions for the Government of the City of Frankfort  Kentucky

Download or read book Charter Ordinances and Resolutions for the Government of the City of Frankfort Kentucky written by Frankfort (Ky.). Charters and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Walking Tour of Historic Frankfort

Download or read book A Walking Tour of Historic Frankfort written by Russell Hatter and published by Gene Burch. This book was released on 2002 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Frankfort Cemetery

Download or read book History of the Frankfort Cemetery written by Lewis Franklin Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Frankfort Cemetery by Lewis Franklin Johnson, first published in 1921, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Book Historic Images of Frankfort

Download or read book Historic Images of Frankfort written by Nicky Hughes and published by Gene Burch. This book was released on 2004 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of historic photographs of Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky.

Book Violence against Women in Kentucky

Download or read book Violence against Women in Kentucky written by Carol E. Jordan and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two centuries, Kentucky women have fought for the right to vote, own property, control their wages, and be safe at home and in the workplace. Tragically, many of these women's voices have been silenced by abuse and violence. In Violence against Women in Kentucky: A History of U.S. and State Legislative Reform, Carol E. Jordan chronicles the stories of those who have led the legislative fight for the last four decades to protect women from domestic violence, rape, stalking, and related crimes. The story of Kentucky's legislative reforms is a history of substantial toil, optimism, advocacy, and personal sacrifice by those who proposed the change. This compelling narrative illustrates, through their own points of view, the stories of survivors who serve as inspiration for change. Jordan analyzes national legislative reforms as well as the strategies that have been used to enact and enforce legislation addressing rape and domestic violence at a local level. Violence against Women in Kentucky is the first book to look at the history of domestic violence and rape in a state that consistently falls at the bottom of women's rights rankings, as told by the activists and survivors who fought for change. Detailing the successes and failures of reforms and outlining the work that is still to be done, this volume reflects on the future of women's rights legislation in Kentucky.

Book Embattled Capital

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  • Author : James M. Prichard
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9780975369791
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Embattled Capital written by James M. Prichard and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As citizens of the capital city of a border state, the people of Frankfort were fated to feel the effects of the Civil War with particular harshness. There were people among the population of Frankfort who held just about every possible opinion on the critical issues of that turbulent time, and people came to the town from all across Kentucky to shape state government's part in the secession crisis and the conduct of the Civil War. Debate about the issues of the day was constant and virulent. Soldiers from both sides marched down Frankfort's streets. Union forces occupied the town, protecting Kentucky state government, during most of the war. But in 1862, Frankfort became the only pro-Union state capital captured by the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Skirmishes were fought on the streets of the town then and again in 1864 when Confederate cavalry raiders made a sudden attack on Frankfort. Rumors of impending assault and outbreaks of home-grown violence kept everyone tense for weeks on end. Young men from Frankfort joined both armies and fought in many of its decisive battles. The war's events profoundly affected Frankfort's African-American community. Everyone in Frankfort tried to get along with their lives, and the war changed the lives of everyone. This book, the product of years of thorough, ground-breaking research by one of Kentucky's most respected archivists, tells the complicated, unique, and fascinating story of Frankfort, Kentucky's small-town capital city, in the Civil War. Even the most experienced Civil War history buffs and scholars will find much here that is new.

Book Register of Kentucky State Historical Society

Download or read book Register of Kentucky State Historical Society written by Kentucky Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Kentucky Land Grants

Download or read book The Kentucky Land Grants written by Willard Rouse Jillson and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 2056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Postcards from Historic Frankfort Kentucky

Download or read book Postcards from Historic Frankfort Kentucky written by Russ Hatter and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Kentucky Encyclopedia

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  • Author : John E. Kleber
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-10-17
  • ISBN : 0813159016
  • Pages : 1080 pages

Download or read book The Kentucky Encyclopedia written by John E. Kleber and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kentucky Encyclopedia's 2,000-plus entries are the work of more than five hundred writers. Their subjects reflect all areas of the commonwealth and span the time from prehistoric settlement to today's headlines, recording Kentuckians' achievements in art, architecture, business, education, politics, religion, science, and sports. Biographical sketches portray all of Kentucky's governors and U.S. senators, as well as note congressmen and state and local politicians. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in the lives of such figures as Carry Nation, Henry Clay, Louis Brandeis, and Alben Barkley. The commonwealth's high range from writers Harriette Arnow and Jesse Stuart, reformers Laura Clay and Mary Breckinridge, and civil rights leaders Whitney Young, Jr., and Georgia Powers, to sports figures Muhammad Ali and Adolph Rupp and entertainers Loretta Lynn, Merle Travis, and the Everly Brothers. Entries describe each county and county seat and each community with a population above 2,500. Broad overview articles examine such topics as agriculture, segregation, transportation, literature, and folklife. Frequently misunderstood aspects of Kentucky's history and culture are clarified and popular misconceptions corrected. The facts on such subjects as mint juleps, Fort Knox, Boone's coonskin cap, the Kentucky hot brown, and Morgan's Raiders will settle many an argument. For both the researcher and the more casual reader, this collection of facts and fancies about Kentucky and Kentuckians will be an invaluable resource.

Book Criminal Justice Agencies in Region 4  Alabama  Florida  Georgia  Kentucky  Mississippi  North Carolina  South Carolina  Tennessee

Download or read book Criminal Justice Agencies in Region 4 Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee written by United States. Department of Justice and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society

Download or read book The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society written by Kentucky Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Railroad Commissioners of Kentucky

Download or read book Report of the Railroad Commissioners of Kentucky written by Railroad Commission of Kentucky and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: