Research Guides: Sisters in the Struggle: Kentucky Women in the Civil Rights Era, 1920s-1970s: Find More Sources

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH CENTER

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pertaining to

the

African American Experience

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Many collections are stored off-site. A phone call or an email prior to your visit will help us to better assist you.

Items in the Special Collections Research Center do not circulate; that means they can not be checked-out.

These items must be used in a designated area within the Special Collections Research Center.

There are Special Collections at other locations. Some have online access and some do not (see the box to the right).

Selected Archival Holdings in Kentucky

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky)
Located in Louisville, KY. Contact for information on individuals or events.
CESKAA (Center of Excellence for the Study of Kentucky African Americans)
Located at Kentucky State University in Jackson Hall: archival collections and a museum. No online access.
Filson Historical Society
Located in Louisville, KY: manuscripts, coins, clothing, census records, tax records, and much more. Search the catalog.
Kentucky Historical Societies
from Access Genealogy

Kentucky Digital Library
Search collections that include civil rights materials such as photos, oral histories, organization records, and other special collections.
KDLA WorldCat Discovery (Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives) [WorldCat Discovery]
Includes records of holdings in the State Archives and other Kentucky manuscript repositories.

Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project
Collection held by the University of Kentucky's Special Collections Research Center. Search and listen to audio recordings online; includes transcripts. Interviews were part of research for Warren's book "Who speaks for the Negro?"
Robert Penn Warren Papers
Manuscripts available in University of Kentucky's Special Collections Research Center.
Special Collections and Archives at Kentucky Public Libraries
List of public libraries. Contact the public library prior to your visit for access information and to learn what items might be in the collections.
University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center
Collections contain many oral histories, photographs, and archival materials. Most collections are not available online.
University of Kentucky African American and Africana Studies
University of Kentucky Martin Luther King Center
See the center for material holdings. Includes the Calvert McCann Photographs of civil rights protests in Lexington and Frankfort, KY.
Who Speaks for the Negro?: an archival collection
The Who Speaks for the Negro? website is a digital archive of materials related to the book of the same name published by Robert Penn Warren in 1965.