POL. Politics

Scope and Contents

The Interim Charter Commission for Louisville and Jefferson County was appointed in April 1982 to do research on the issue of city-county merger in response to Senate Bill 13 which was passed by the Kentucky Legislature in 1982.

Two three-ring binders contain background information, reports, and minutes of the Interim Charter Commission for Louisville and Jefferson County, 1982.

Scope and Contents

Records include constitution and bylaws or the organization, minutes from 1970 to 1987, financial documents from 1945-1974, correspondence, treasurers' records, publications, and news clippings.

Content Description

The records include reports, studies, and minutes.

Scope and Contents The collection contains a variety of material reflecting Jillson's varied life. The collection contains photographs and other memorabilia of his fraternity's fiftieth anniversary celebration in 1959. There is extensive business correspondence from the periods of oil surveys in the Kansas-Oklahoma area; correspondence concerning state and federal appointments from the 1920s; and letters dealing with daily life. There are also notes and manuscripts compiled as his research for his many...

Scope and Contents

The collection contains Jones' correspondence, relating to both academic and political matters.

Content Description This microfilm reproduces two clipping scrapbooks compiled by Ben Kelly in the 1890s, which contain poetry, documents relating to social functions sponsored by Louisville fraternal and labor organizations, a typescript recollection of the history of Kentucky's whiskey gaugers from the 1870s to the 1910s and clippings, with some correspondence concerning local Republican Party activities. Some of the latter material discusses the participation of the American Protective Association, an...

Content Description

Collection includes correspondence, speeches, newsclippings and photographs.

Content Description Records of the Kentucky Alliance against Racist & Political Oppression, including newsletters, programs from their annual Unity Dinner and other events. Includes posters and a banner from Citizens Against Police Abuse (CAPA), which was a coalition of more than 30 civil rights and religious organizations, including the Kentucky Alliance against Racist and Political Repression, the Jefferson County chapter of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, the ACLU of Kentucky, the Fairness Campaign,...

Scope and Contents

The records include legal documents, minutes, bulletins to members, correspondence, financial records, and membership lists.