Notable Kentucky African Americans Database

Race first: the ideological and organizational struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Author(s): Tony Martin
Call Number: E185.97.G3 M37
Location: University of Kentucky Libraries:

Young Library

The race problem : the colored postmaster of Georgia, another act of shameful injustice against our eight millions of colored citizens
Author(s): Charles Henry Williams
Location: Request via Interlibrary Loan

Race, slavery, and free Blacks Series I, Petitions to southern legislatures, 1777-1867
Author(s): Loren Schweninger; Robert Shelton; Charles Edward Smith
Access Information: Reproduces a collection of nearly 3,000 petitions assembled over a period of ten years by the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, University of North Carolina at Greensboro from state archives for several states, including Kentucky.
Location: Request documents via Interlibrary Loan
Search the Digital Library on American Slavery, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

The racial attitudes of American Presidents, from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt
Author(s): George Sinkler
Call Number: E176.1 .S57
Location: University of Kentucky Libraries:

Young Library

The Raconteur : year book of Morehead State University
Author(s): Morehead State University
Location: Morehead State University Library

Rainbow on the river (song)
Author(s): Sarah McLawler and Richard Otto
Access Information: On the 1960s LP album We Bring You Swing.
Location: Request via Interlibrary Loan

Rap n learn (sound recording)
Author(s): Bobbie R. Wiggins
Access Information: Educational CD for young learners.
Location: P. O. Box 83

Paducah, Kentucky 42005

R.C. Hellrigle & Co.'s Lexington city directory and gazetteer, Cincinnati Southern Railway, 1877-8
Author(s): Lexington, Ky. : R.C. Hellrigle & Co.
Call Number: F459.L6 R34 1877
Location: University of Kentucky Libraries;
Special Collections

The Reading room (video)
Author(s): Georg Stanford Brown, et. al.
Access Information: Originally released as a television motion picture in 2005.
Location: Campbell County Public Library ; Laurel County Public Library ; McCracken County Public Library

Recipes from out to the house: a collection
Author(s): Garden of Eden Neighborhood Association (Fort Worth, Tex.)
Location: Request via Interlibrary Loan

Records of the National Negro Business League
Author(s): Kenneth Marvin Hamilton; Robert Lester
Access Information: Microform

Part 1- Annual conference proceedings and organizational records, 1900-1919 (3 reels)

Part 2 - Correspondence and business records, 1900-1923 (11 reels)
Location: Request via Interlibrary Loan

A guide to the microfilm edition available via LexisNexis Academic

*Available online at Google Book Search: Proceedings of the National Negro Business League, Its First Meeting...August 23 and 24, 1900*

The Reflections of Florence Victoria Adams
Author(s): Adams, Florence Victoria
Location: Request via Interlibrary Loan

The Reformer (newspaper or periodical)
Author(s): Detroit, MI
Location: No holdings located at this time

Religion and the rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
Author(s): James B Bennett
Call Number: F379.N59 N4 2005
Location: University of Kentucky Libraries:

Young Library

Reminiscences of a Mississippian in peace and war
Author(s): Frank A Montgomery
Call Number: E605 .M78 1901
Location: University of Kentucky Libraries:

Special Collections

Also available full view at Google Book Search

Repairing the breach : key ways to support family life, reclaim our streets, and rebuild civil society in America's communities : report of the National Task Force on African-American Men and Boys, Andrew J. Young, chairman
Author(s): Andrew Young and Bobby William Austin
Location: University of Kentucky Libraries:

Subscription Database - Netlibrary E-book

The Republican (newspaper)
Author(s): Springfield, MA; Republican Co.
Location: University of Kentucky Libraries:

Subscription Database - Access World News (1988-present)

Residential mobility of Negroes in Detroit, 1837-1965
Author(s): Donald Richard Deskins
Call Number: F574.D4 D18
Location: University of Kentucky Libraries:

Young Library

The Restriction of European immigration, 1890-1924
Author(s): Taylor, Joseph Henry
Location: Request via Interlibrary Loan

The Resurrection and other poems
Author(s): Brooks, Jonathan Henderson
Location: Berea College Library

The Rhetorical structure of the traditional Black church (dissertation)
Author(s): M. Celeste Nichols
Access Information: (Ph. D.)--University of Louisville, 1991.
Location: University of Louisville Library [will not lend via Interlibrary Loan]

Rice
Author(s): Finney, Nikky
Call Number: PS3556.I53 R530 1995
Location: University of Kentucky Libraries:
Special Collections
Young Library
University of Kentucky, Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center Library

The Richmond climax (newspaper)
Author(s): Richmond, Ky. : Climax Print. Co.
Access Information: Published 1897-1914, then title changed to Madisonian
Location: University of Kentucky Libraries:

Young Library Periodicals Desk Microfilm (scatterd issues)

Also available at Eastern Kentucky University Library

1899-1910 available full text at Kentuckiana Digital Library - Newspapers

1900-1910 available full text at Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA)

The Richwood gazette (newspaper)
Author(s): United States; Ohio; Union; Richwood
Location: Request via Interlibrary Loan

Riot and remembrance: the Tulsa race war and its legacy
Author(s): James S Hirsch
Call Number: F704.T92 R56 2002
Location: University of Kentucky Libraries:
Young Library

The rise of "Colored Methodism"; a study of the background and the beginnings of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Author(s): Othal Hawthorne Lakey
Location: Asbury Theological Seminary Library

Lexington Theological Seminary Library

Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Library

Rising tones cross (videorecording)
Author(s): Ebba Jahn; Charles Gayle; Peter Kowald; Don Cherry
Access Information: "This film is a documentary compositon of new jazz, New York as the city that generates it, and the musicians playing it. The thoughts of the saxophonist Charles Gayle and the bass players William Parker and Peter Kowald from Germany accompany the film"--Container.
Location: Request via Interlibray Loan

Also available for purchase online.

Riverboat shuffle (album)
Author(s): Cotton Club
Access Information: 78 RPM
Location: Request via Interlibrary Loan

Rock, rock, rock! (film)
Author(s): Milton Subotsky et. al.
Access Information: Originally filmed in 1956, on 2003 DVD
Location: Georgetown College Ensor Learning Research Center ; Lexington Public Library

Roots: the next generation (videorecording)
Author(s): Alex Haley et al.
Location: NOT at UK. Available at several other Kentucky libraries.

Rostrum (newspaper)
Author(s): Cincinnati, OH
Location: No holdings located at this time

Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in (television program)
Author(s): Schlatter, George et al.
Access Information: The Best of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in (videorecording)
Location: Lexington Public Library ; Morehead State University Library

Rufus E. Clement and Horace M. Bond (videorecording)
Author(s): Columbia Broadcasting System
Access Information: Chronscope Series
Location: Available from Alexander Street, American History in Video.

Russell Co., Kentucky, Black marriages
Author(s): Sanders, Carol Ann
Location: NOT at UK. Available at several other Kentucky libraries.