Louisville Reference Files: A

• Artists
• Biographies
• Black Women for Political Action
• Bourgard College
• Business: Directories
• Business: General (See also: African Americans--Walnut Street Business District)
• Business: National Negro Business League
• Catholic Colored High School
• Central Law School (See also: Education--Simmons College of Kentucky)
• Civil Rights (See: African Americans--Political Issues)
• Derby Cruising
• Desegregation of Public Accommodations (See also: African Americans--Political Issues)
• Desegregation of Public Schools: General, 1950s-1960s (See also: Education-Busing)
• Desegregation of Public Schools: 1970s (See also: Education-Busing)
• Desegregation of Public Schools: 1980s-1990s (See also: Education-Busing)
• Desegregation of Public Schools: 2000s (See also: Education-Busing)
• Desegregation of Public Schools: 2010s (See also: Education-Busing)
• Economic and Social Conditions
• Education: Higher Education
• Education: Primary/Secondary Schools
• Employment
• Health
• History (includes Weeden)
• Housing: 1940s-1970s
• Housing: 1980s
• Housing: 1990s-2010s
• Indiana
• Jockeys
• Journalism (See also: African Americans--Louisville Defender Newspaper)
• Judges (See also: African Americans--Political Leaders)
• Juneteenth Celebration
• Justice Resource Center
• Kentucky Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression
• Kentucky Center for African-American Heritage
• Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame
• Kentucky Commission on Human Rights
• Kentucky School for the Blind, Colored Department (See also: Education--Kentucky School for the Blind)
• Lincoln Foundation
• Louisville Association of Black Communicators
• Louisville Defender Newspaper
• Louisville National Medical School
• Louisville Urban League: 1970s-1980s
• Louisville Urban League: 1990s-2010s
• Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company (See: Business & Industry--Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company)
• March on Frankfort (1964)
• Music/Musicians
• NAACP
• Physicians (See also: African Americans--Health)
• Political Issues/Civil Rights (See also: African Americans--Desegregation of Public Accomodations, African Americans--Desegregation of Public School, African Americans--Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame, African Americans--March on Frankfort)
• Political Leaders (See also: African Americans--Judges)
• Publications
• Real Estate
• Religion
• Slavery (See also: Cultural and Historical--Civil War)
• Walnut Street Business District
• Western Branch Library (See also: Cultural and Historical--Louisville Free Public Library)
• Women United for Social Action

• Actors Theatre of Louisville (See also: Buildings--Central Passenger Station)
• Alley Theater
• Architecture: General
• Architecture: Louisville Landmarks
• Architecture: Louisville Survey
• Architecture: Shotgun Houses
• Art Center Association
• Art Galleries (See also: Arts--Visual)
• Artist-in-Residence Program
• Artists (See: African Americans--Artists)
• Artopia (See: Arts-Louisville Visual Arts Association)
• Arts Club
• Artspace
• Ballet Español
• Barking Dogs Dance Company
• Blue Apple Players
• Broadway Series
• Bunbury Theatre
• Chamber Music Society of Louisville
• Cinema
• Classics in Context
• Creative Diversity Art Center
• Dance
• Derby Dinner Playhouse
• Embroidery
• Federal Arts Projects
• Forecastle Festival
• Fund for the Arts
• Gallopalooza (See also: Recreation-Kentucky Derby Festival)
• General
• Glass
• Iroquois Amphitheater
• Jazz
• Jug Bands
• Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery (See: Arts-Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft)
• Kentucky Authors (See also: Arts-Literature)
• Kentucky Center for the Arts (See also: Buildings--Kentucky Center for the Arts)
• Kentucky College of Art + Design (KyCAD)
• Kentucky Cooperative Theatre
• Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (formerly Kentucky Art & Craft Gallery/Kentucky Museum of Art & Design)
• Kentucky Museum of Art and Design (See: Arts-Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft)
• Kentucky Opera (See: Arts-Opera)
• Kentucky Shakespeare Festival
• KentuckyShow
• Leopard Percussionists
• Linkin' Bridge
• Literature  (See also: Arts-Kentucky Authors)
• Little Colonel Players
• Louisville Art Center
• Louisville Artists League
• Louisville Arts Council
• Louisville Bach Society
• Louisville Ballet
• Louisville Children's Theatre (See: Arts-StageOne)
• Louisville Chorus
• Louisville Master Chorale
• Louisville Orchestra: General/Early-1950s
• Louisville Orchestra: 1960s-1980s
• Louisville Orchestra: 1990s-2000s
• Louisville Orchestra: 2010s
• Louisville Philharmonia
• Louisville School of Painting and Drawing
• Louisville Theatrical Association
• Louisville Visual Arts Association [includes Artopia] (See also: Arts--Visual)
• Louisville Youth Choir
• Louisville Youth Orchestra
• MacDowell Music Club
• Music (See also: African Americans--Music/Musicians)
• Music Theatre Louisville
• My Morning Jacket
• Opera (includes Kentucky Opera)
• Photography
• Quilting
• Roots and Wings
• Sculptures (See also: Cultural & Historical--Monuments)
• Society for Arts in Louisville
• Speed Art Museum: Early to 1960s & General (See also: Buildings-Speed Art Museum)
• Speed Art Museum: 1970s--1980s (See also: Buildings-Speed Art Museum)
• Speed Art Museum: 1990s--2010s (See also: Buildings-Speed Art Museum)
• Squallis Puppeteers
• St. James Art Fair (See also: Arts--Unfair
• StageOne (Louisville Children’s Theatre)
• Textiles
• Theatre Alliance of Louisville
• Theatre-General
• Thoroughbred Chorus
• Underground Music
• UnFair (See also: Arts--St. James Art Fair)
• Visual (See also: Arts-Louisville Visual Arts Association)
• Walden Theatre
• West Louisville Boys Choir/West Louisville Girls Choir
• Youth Performing Arts School [YPAS] (See also: Education--Manual High School)

Reference files contain newspaper clippings, brochures, flyers, photographs, correspondence, and similar materials that are too small to constitute a collection on their own. Files vary considerably in size, from just a few newspaper clippings to several folders of clippings, letters, memos, photographs, etc. These files may all be accessed on-site in the Archives & Special Collections (ASC) research room. For information on visiting ASC, see our Archives Users' Guide.

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