Historical Influence: Reading Georgia Powers as a Grassroots Civil Rights Leader in the Rough Business of Kentucky Politics

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Historical Influence is a thematic political civil rights history of Senator Georgia Davis Powers. Powers made major contributions to the Commonwealth of Kentucky throughout the rough business of Kentucky politics—the politics of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Life history assumes figuring out the particular context of 1 person is paramount. In Powers’ twenty-one years as a Kentucky state senator, she championed bills for open housing and labor, and against race, class, sex, education and job discrimination. Senator Powers sponsored and co-sponsored some 147 bills, 75 of which changed into laws throughout her tenure. Onyekwuluje provides an in-depth and inspiring story about Powers’ role within the fight for equal justice in Kentucky and all over the world. She is situated politically with women like Harriet Martineau and Ida B. Wells in anchoring the reality about rights, responsibility, and humanity. Onyekwuluje connects Powers’ life to ladies issues all over the world.

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