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1 online resource (xviii, 166 pages) : illustrations |
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"Community and memory are two concepts that together evoke emotions long felt but seldom expressed. This work explores two aspects of memory - that captured by photographic images freezing a particular moment in time and that captured through oral history interviews. Based on thirty-six interviews and containing two hundred photographs from fifty-two personal collections, Community Memories brings together the life stories, remembrances, and experiences that have coalesced into the shared memory of the African American community in Frankfort, Kentucky's capital." |
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"To be sure, these photos and oral history excerpts offer only a brief glimpse into the everyday life of the African American community. There are undoubtedly aspects of that community that are not included at all; however, five main themes emerged in both the interviews and the images and became the subjects of distinct chapters within the book - the elusive concept of community is the overarching theme; the importance of family, and the significance of employment, religion, and education are the threads that combine to form the sense of community, togetherness, and belonging. Within these often-intertwined webs of social interaction, reside the stories, celebrations, songs, meeting places, and lore of Black residents in the Frankfort area." |
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"While this is a glimpse of Frankfort's African American community, it has much in common with other Black communities, especially those in the South. Although much in the collection that produced this work - both photographic and oral history - is nostalgic, it ultimately demonstrates that change is constant, producing both negative and positive results."--Jacket |
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Includes index |
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Subject |
African Americans -- Kentucky -- Frankfort -- History
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African Americans -- Kentucky -- Frankfort -- Social conditions
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African Americans -- Kentucky -- Frankfort -- Interviews
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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African Americans
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African Americans -- Social conditions
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Social conditions
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SUBJECT |
Frankfort (Ky.) -- History
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Frankfort (Ky.) -- Social conditions
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Frankfort (Ky.) -- Biography
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Kentucky -- Frankfort
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Interviews
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Electronic book
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Author |
Burton, Sheila Mason, 1948- editor.
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Wallace, James E., 1957- editor.
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Winter, Mary E., 1953- editor.
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Boyd, Douglas A., 1970- editor.
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Hardin, John
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Wolfe, George C., writer of preface
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Kentucky Historical Society.
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ISBN |
9780813159799 |
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0813159792 |
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