002: A History of Blacks in Kentucky, Volume 2: In Pursuit of Equality, 1890-1980

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” Published by the Kentucky Historical Society & Distributed by the University Press of Kentucky That is the second one a part of a two-volume study which covers all the spectrum of the black experience in Kentucky from earliest exploration and settlement to 1980. (Click here for information on the first volume, From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891.) Mandated and partially funded by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1978, this pathbreaking work is essentially the most comprehensive consideration of the subject ever undertaken. It fills a long-recognized void in Kentucky history. George C. Wright describes the struggle of blacks in the twentieth century to succeed in the promise of political, social, and economic equality. From the rising tide of racism and violence on the turn of the century to the civil rights movement and school integration in later decades, Wright describes the accomplishments, frustrations, and defeats suffered by the race, concluding that even in 1980 only some blacks had in truth achieved the long-sought toal of equality.


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