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Have We Been Down This Road Before? Reflections on Kentucky Women’s History

Have We Been Down This Road Before? Reflections on Kentucky Women’s History. Randolph Hollingsworth, M.A.T., Ph.D. University of Kentucky. Don’t worry about a thing, ‘cause every little thing gonna be alright!. Women don’t have any history – not really… Women’s history isn’t about me or you.

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Have We Been Down This Road Before? Reflections on Kentucky Women’s History

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  1. Have We Been Down This Road Before?Reflections on Kentucky Women’s History Randolph Hollingsworth, M.A.T., Ph.D. University of Kentucky

  2. Don’t worry about a thing, ‘cause every little thing gonna be alright! • Women don’t have any history – not really… • Women’s history isn’t about me or you. • Women in KY were poor, illiterate, pregnant and sick – dodging bullets from all the feuding, right? ‘nuff said! Women and children on the front porch of a mining company house at Four Mile, Bell County KY, 1946

  3. Don’t worry … Wait – weren’t Kentucky women Southern belles … and wily whorehouse madams? Sallie Ward, Louisville 1860 Belle Brezing, Lexington 1895

  4. Sing sweet songs of melodies pure and true … Pre 1750s: sustainable agriculture, international markets, healing aspects of spirituality 18th and early 19th centuries: agri-business, church as microcosm of local social reform, public education, transnationalism, patriotism

  5. Every little thing’s gonnabe all right… 19th &early 20thcenturies: war resistance, memorialization of warriors, white supremacy, free love, literacy, defining citizenship, kinship networks across boundaries, rely on federal funding while emphasizing states rights

  6. Everything’s gonnabe all right 20th & early 21st centuries: conservation, improved labor conditions, internationalism & human rights, how to woo an international company to Kentucky – and when not to, polite racism

  7. Everything’s gonnabe alright Sisters in the Struggle: KY Women in the Long Civil Rights Era, 1920s-70s • Historical records and record-keeping • The promise of our youth • Digital media and the Internet • History in the open – each 1 teach 1http://www.kywcrh.org

  8. Created new Wikipedia category: History of Women in Kentucky Joyce Hamilton Berry Joy Bale Boone Anna Mac Clarke Dolores Delahanty Audrey Grevious Elizabeth Fouse Julia Britton Hooks Kentucky Female Orphan School Lucille C. Little Anita Madden NAACP in Kentucky Judi Patton Lena M. Phillips Suzy Post Jeanette B. Priebe

  9. Research Journals in the open

  10. Research fueled by Reinette Jones’ UK NKAA database

  11. Research fueled by others’ findings … & supportive messages

  12. Oral History Group Projects

  13. Oral History Group Projects

  14. Kentucky women’s history Can help us focus and refocus our lens on our future

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