Douglass Park


Douglass Park Oral History Index pdf

Neighborhoods in Lexington: an index, 1885-1961 pdf

Multimedia Production Flowchart pdf


NOTE: this is a brief list of resources, please read the Thesis for more detailed references.

Goings, Kenneth W. and Mohl, Raymond A. "Toward A New African American Urban History," Journal of Urban History, Vol. 21 No. 3, March, 1995, 283-295.

hooks, bell. Yearning: race, gender, and cultural politics. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1990.
______Killing Rage: Ending Racism. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.

Kelly, Robin D. G. "`We Are Not What We Seem': Rethinking Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South," Journal of American History 80 (June 1993), 75-112.

Russell, Evan Ray. History: Owensboro Parks and Recreation, 1815-1990. Owensboro,

KY: Progress Printing Company, 1990.

Wright, George C. Life Behind the Veil: Blacks in Louisville, Kentucky 1865-1930. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.
______A History of Blacks in Kentucky, Volume Two: in Pursuit of Equality. Frankfort, KY: Kentucky Historical Society, 1992.

Additional Sources from Footnotes

Lexington City Archives Source:
open files on city parks and Lexington Civic League,
Lexington Fayette Urban County Government,
Department of Finance Records and Archives.
Harold Barker, Records Manager.

Local Newspapers:
Lexington (Ky.) Herald.
Lexington (Ky.) Leader.

Oral Interviews
John Will Brown, Lexington, Ky., January 5 and 6, 1996.
Melvin Cunningham, Lexington, Ky., March 16, 1996.
Stanford T. Roach, Lexington, Ky., April 19, 1996.

Public Documents
Kentucky Revised Statutes, 1940-1956, 1995.

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