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Central Colored School project files

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1999_111-UA
Content Description Consists of files and oral history tapes produced by Judi Jennings and Carl Ryant in the course of a project dealing with the Central Colored School. The Central Colored School was established in 1873, and the building was the first in Kentucky built specifically as a public school for African Americans. It was renamed the Mary D. Hill School in 1917, and was used as a school building until it closed in 1970. These papers consist primarily of materials relating to the grant obtained to fund...
Dates: 1992-1994
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Charles Parrish letter copy books (microfilm)

 Collection
Identifier: 1993_084-UA
Content Description

Letter copy books created by Parrish during the time he was president of Eckstein Norton Institute; one reel microfilm.

Dates: 1891-1911
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Lincoln Institute of Kentucky scrapbooks and photograph album (microfilm)

 Collection
Identifier: 1973_472-UA
Content Description

The scrapbooks and photograph album document the school's history from its founding to 1971. The volumes include newspaper clippings, correspondence, promotional literature, printed programs, periodic reports, minutes, legal papers, and typescripts of brief historical narratives and speeches. Microfilmed by University of Louisville, University Archives and Records Center,

Dates: 1904-1971
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Charles Henry Parrish papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1996_097-UA
Scope and Contents Boxes 19 is currently missing. Its contents are unknown. Dating from 1883-1983, the material in the collection documents his career in teaching, civil rights and community work and includes documents concerning his parents, wife, and daughter.Personal and professional correspondence, drafts and final copies of papers, photographs, financial records, reports, newspaper articles, minutes, brochures, memoranda, proposals, and notes from 1954 to 1967 represent the career...
Dates: 1883-1983 (bulk 1931-1978); Majority of material found in 1931 - 1978
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Simmons University historical materials

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1994_056-UA
Content Description

Two scrapbooks, 1926-27 yearbook, one 1928 unsigned diploma.

Dates: 1926-1928
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Simmons University records

 Collection
Identifier: 1987_005-UA
Scope and Contents This collection includes school catalogs, yearbooks, promotional literature, scrapbooks, and photographs; together with minutes and other publications of the school's sponsoring agency, General Association of Kentucky Baptists, formerly the General Association of Colored Baptists in Kentucky. Also present is material on Central Law School and Louisville National Medical College, affiliates of the college, and on the history of the General Assocation and black Baptists in Kentucky, African...
Dates: 1869-1971
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Walter Jr. and Jessie Stokes family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2013_104-UA
Content Description Papers include an autograph book, Louisville Municipal College items, clipping scrapbooks, honorary plaques, family photographs including dance materials, performance programs, academic records and school memorabilia, and family memorabilia for the Stokes and Jackson families. Walter and Jessie Stokes were African Americans who attended Louisville Municipal College. Walter was a successful Commonwealth Life Insurance salesman; he died September 9, 2012.Box 9 contains accretion...
Dates: circa 1920-2020
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

George D. Wilson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1989_115-UA
Scope and Contents

Wilson's papers document his teaching career including publications of the Kentucky Negro Education Association and the Kentucky Teachers Association, reports of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, and correspondence and audits for the Red Cross Hospital in Louisville dating from 1965 to 1970.

Dates: 1923-1988
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

Linda L. Wilson Louisville Municipal College collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2000_133-UA
Content Description Memorabilia of Louisville Municipal College, including a LMC sweater, jacket, beanie, banners, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, football programs, some issues of the student newspaper (the Bantam), and obituary clippings for class members. There are also items from an exhibit on African American soldiers, as well as videotaped and transcribed oral history interviews with alumnae/i. Louisville Municipal College was operated by the University of Louisville from 1930 to 1951 as a college for...
Dates: 1930-2009; Majority of material found within 1931-1951
Found in: University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections

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