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Louisville Reference Files: A

African Americans

  • 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

Arts

  • 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)

For More Information

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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