The Community Memories Oral History Project explores African American life in Frankfort and Franklin County and was conducted in conjunction with the earlier photographic project collecting family photographs of the members of this community. The...
Elbert Arvin gives the history of his farming operations. Topics include acreage purchased and prices, the attitude of the bank, tenant farmers, barns, tractors, other business ventures, crops raised, livestock feed, livestock, beef cattle, hogs,...
Edward F. Prichard, Jr. recalls his involvement and subsequent indictment for vote fraud in Bourbon County during the 1948 U.S. Senate race between Virgil Chapman and John Sherman Cooper. Prichard also recalls his incarceration in the Federal...
1983-05-13
Edward F. Prichard, Jr. Oral History Project, 2003OH01
Interviews in this collection were conducted with women in Kentucky on the topic of the history of women’s rights in the state. Interviews discuss the individual women’s lives pertaining to activism and points of inspiration towards supporting...
Between 1955 and 1972 Frankfort's "Bottom" or "Craw" community, an integrated working-class neighborhood, was systematically destroyed by the urban renewal process in the capital city. In a series of interviews former residents describe their...
The Community Memories Oral History Project explores African American life in Frankfort and Franklin County and was conducted in conjunction with the earlier photographic project collecting family photographs of the members of this community. The...
Wolford and Jacobs were campaigning for General George McClellan during the presidential election of 1864 when they denounced President Lincoln as a tyrant and called upon the public to resist his war efforts.
Discusses why people choose farming as a career and how a college education helps achieve this. For anyone wanting a perspective on farming in the future, why people choose this profession, how tobacco and the tobacco program fits into the family...
The Community Memories Oral History Project explores African American life in Frankfort and Franklin County and was conducted in conjunction with the earlier photographic project collecting family photographs of the members of this community. The...
Tommy McMullin discusses the history of his family farm in Madison County. Topics include when his father started farming, changes in crops, tobacco farming, raising beef cattle, hogs, government farm assistance, county tax assessment, the Tobacco...
Between 1955 and 1972 Frankfort's "Bottom" or "Craw" community, an integrated working-class neighborhood, was systematically destroyed by the urban renewal process in the capital city. In a series of interviews former residents describe their...
The Community Memories Oral History Project explores African American life in Frankfort and Franklin County and was conducted in conjunction with the earlier photographic project collecting family photographs of the members of this community. The...
This collection consists of interviews with persons of disabilities living in Kentucky. The interviews document the personal experiences and perspectives of those whose lives are directly impacted by policies related to disabilities and who live...
Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. recalls his experiences as a student at Princeton University and Harvard Law School. During the Princeton segment, Prichard discusses his life at Princeton, remembering such topics as his professors and classmates,...
1982-11-15
Edward F. Prichard, Jr. Oral History Project, 2003OH01
The purpose of this interview is to try to get some perspective in how and why out-of-state individuals decide to invest in the tobacco business in Kentucky despite the uncertain future. Mr. Pope built a million dollar warehouse after loosing an...
