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Photo: "Boy With Racer."
Source:
Carrie Ellis and Henry Arnett Smith: A
Lexington Kentucky Photo Album from the
collection of
Gary Young
Colored Marriage Declarations (1866-1908)
Slaves Named in Fayette County
KY Newspapers
The Lexington African-American Timeline
African Cemetery No. 2
Finding Voice for the Lyric Theatre: An Oral History
Blacks in Lexington Oral History Project
(in the
project box, search for "Blacks in Lexington")
Historic African American Churches of
Lexington
African
American Heritage Trail by Doris Wilkinson -
References for Trail
Martin Luther King Neighborhood Association
MLK Neighborhood - House Histories
(under community outreach)
Lexington
Case Studies (Walter and Fannie Williams / E. Belle Mitchell and Jordan
Carlisle Jackson)
Kentucky
jurisprudence: a history of the trial of Miss Delia A. Webster at
Lexington, Kentucky, Dec'r 17-21, 1844
Letters
from Ex-slaves, Lexington Kentucky 1830s-1880s
The Daily Aesthetic - pre-integration
photos of Lexington's city parks
Free
Persons of Color Named in
1838
Free
Persons of Color named in 1859
List of colored US Civil War soldiers
buried in the Lexington National Cemetery
This national cemetery is
located within the Lexington Cemetery at 833 West Main Street,
Lexington, Kentucky; however, inquiries about military burials should be directed to Camp Nelson National
Cemetery (606) 885-5727.
Slave Captives at Ruddell's and Martin's
Forts
An Adams County Mississippi Court Record
Book
(contains names of numerous
slaves from Fayette County KY)
Dr. Wilkinson's African American barbershops presentation
Roots and Heritage Festival
Fayette County Data from the California Slavery Era Insurance Registry
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The Horace Smith
Family
Kate Dudley Baumont, Ex-Slave WPA Narrative
"Brother Captain" - The Rev. Peter Duerett/
Durrett
William Wells Brown, 1815-1884
Biography of London
Ferrill, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Colored Persons,
Lexington, KY [orig. pub.
1854]
Life of the Rev. Elisha W.
Greene
[1888]
Isaac Scott Hathaway
Scott Hathaway
Museum
Lewis Hayden (1811 -
1889)
Lyman T.
Johnson
Life and History of the
Rev. Elijah P. Marrs [orig. pub. 1885]
The preceding three biographies are from
The Church in the Southern
Black Community (American Memory, Library of Congress)
James McNeil, Emancipation of Slaves (Will
1864)
Isaac B. Murphy
Joseph Robinson names Sarah and Millie
(Will 1823)
Morgan and Marvin Smith
Jimmy Winkfield
Camp
Nelson
During the Civil War, many
Fayette County black men gathered at
Camp Nelson,
a Union army
supply depot 5 miles south of Lexington in Jessamine County. They were often joined there by
their families. In
2002 the National
Register of Historic Places highlighted
the camp for Black History Month.
Nicodemus Kansas
In September 1877, W.R. Hill
and Reverend M.M. Bell enrolled nearly three hundred freedmen
from the vicinity of Lexington, Kentucky for
settlement in Nicodemus, Kansas.
See
Colored Emigrants to Kansas.
On
September 17, the Lexington, Kentucky group arrived in Nicodemus. This date is still celebrated as the founding of the Nicodemus colony
in Graham County, Kansas.
Kentucky Resources
Kentucky African American
Griots
Notable
Kentucky African Americans
Kentucky African American History Timeline
Jim Crow Laws: Kentucky
KY Civil Rights Oral
History Database
Kentuckiana
Digital Library
Lots of great images
Research at the KY
Dept for Libraries and Archives
African Americans in Kentucky History
Roll of
Emigrants to Liberia 1820-1843
The American
Colonization Society
The Freedmen's Bureau Online
Slavery in the Hemp Industry
KY Colonization Society
History of Kentucky's United States Colored
Troops
African American
Union Sailers from KY
Univ of KY African American Resources Page
Kentucky African American Heritage Guide
Illinois slavery era insurance policies
registry
Jefferson County, IN - Register of Negros and Mulattoes 1853-1860
1860
census: slaves 100 years old or more
Virginia Runaways Project -
a digital database of runaway and captured slave and servant advertisements from 18th-century Virginia
newspapers(Un)Reconstructing
Uncle Tom's Cabin
KET's
Underground Railroad Video Segments |
LEXINGTON COLORED FAIR
ASSOCIATION
Text From
Historical Highway Marker #1961
(Lexington, Georgetown St., Fayette Co.)
Started in 1869 by the Lexington Colored Agricultural and
Mechanical Assoc., the annual fair promoted racial
achievement and offered entertainment which attracted
thousands from Ky. and beyond. When located on Georgetown
Pike, the site had an exhibition hall, amphitheatre, and
racetrack.
(Reverse) Successful Enterprise
Though similar fairs were held statewide, Lexington's
Colored Fair was most successful, lasting well into the
1930s. Fairs were as popular as Emancipation Day among
the state's black citizens. Cash prizes were awarded
winners in categories from livestock and racing to music
and floral display. The fairs showed African American
accomplishments since emancipation.
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COLORED ORPHAN
INDUSTRIAL HOME
Text From
Historical Highway Marker #1963
(Lexington, 644 Georgetown St., Fayette Co.)
Led by Mrs. E. Belle Mitchell Jackson, orphan home opened
here in 1894. Orphans and other black youth learned to
read and write and acquired a trade; also refuge for
elderly women. By 1909 home consisted of 18 acres and 2
brick houses. Burned in 1912. A new building dedicated
1913; serves as Robert H. Williams Cultural Center. |
General
US
Kenyatta Berry's
African American Genealogy Blog
African Ancestored Genealogy Discussion
Archives
African
American History
Sankofa's
Afrikan Slave Genealogy
Gilder Lehrman
Center
Looking at
Slavery: Going to the Sources
The Slave Kingdoms from
PBS
African American Photo Portraiture 1880-1920
Africana Heritage Project
Afrigeneas
Christine's
Genealogy Website:
African
American & Native American/Hispanic Resources
FamilySearch African American Resources
Princeton's
African American Genealogy on the Web
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970
Documenting the American South:
Southern
Literature, First-Person & African American Slave Narratives
Federal Records & African American History
The
Last Slave Ships
Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving
African
American Lives: Analyzing the Evidence
Paul Laurence
Dunbar Digital Collection
African American Sheet Music 1850-1920 |
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