1st Batch of Student Research Projects

These are the the first drafts of the AAS 200 research based websites that are intended to add to the research entries associated with Notable Kentucky African American Database - www.nkaa.uky.edu.

@UKUGEd @rhollingsworth Tweeting the 1st batch of @UK_AAAS student research webpages. Special thanks to @blacklibrarian & @UKLibraries #BBN  www.nkaa.uky.edu

http://bighousegaines.weebly.com
http://aliyahgranger13.wix.com/efiiewallersmith

http://chrisbri96.wix.com/wilbur-hackett

http://monkestill.webstarts.com/

http://priscillahcooper.weebly.com/

http://rubin364.wix.com/sammyshakeanderson

http://jhmo224.wix.com/aasproject

http://eyeswideshut20.blogspot.com/

http://raineybethea.weebly.com/

http://bhooksukyaas.weebly.com/

http://charleswanderson.weebly.com/

http://cassiusclayaas200.weebly.com/

http://abcl225.wix.com/womensarmycorps

http://williamhwilson.weebly.com/
http://jordanyates1230.wix.com/aurelianorrisyoung
http://nikkyfinney.weebly.com
http://raymondburse.weebly.com
http://aadunnigan.weebly.com
http://mervinraubespin.weebly.com
http://albertaojones.weebly.com
http://rawlingsnicole2.wix.com/maestreetkidd
http://traviskeel44.wix.com/allensworth
http://magowanbrothers.weebly.com
http://gordonvanecia.wix.com/elderwatsondiggs
http://sccard01.wix.com/lyman-johnson
http://joriecarr16.wix.com/margaretgarner
http://melvintmason.weebly.com

Emmett Till, Civil Rights Movement and Technologies

Greetings, Class Community.

We watched a documentary and discussed The Emmett Till Case of 1955.  There are a few questions I would like you to consider and discuss in our digital class space. 

Please respond to the following questions:

1. Do you recognize our discussions about The Great Migration and sundown towns being connected to the life, murder, and subsequent trial regarding Emmett Till? If so, what are those connections and how would you summarize the cause and effect relationship?

2.  Do you recognize our discussions about the miscegenation and 'racial purity' being connected to the life, murder, and subsequent trial regarding Emmett Till? If so, what are those connections and how would you summarize the cause and effect relationship of those terms and this event?

3.  How do you think 'new' technologies, such as the television, impacted the public reaction to the life, murder, and subsequent trial regarding Emmett Till? Please explain in a short paragraph of at least three sentences.

The links to the Emmett Till Documentaries: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvijYSJtkQk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8QXNyCvDP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkrgPF6-fkY

Sheryl Means - Sisters in the Struggle: The Long View of Black Women and Civil Rights

Greetings, Class Community.

Ms. Sheryl Means discussed the efforts of black women in the Long Civil Rights Movement.   Ms. Means' research extends from 1830 to present times. She also spoke of the efforts of many black women in the struggle for civil rights.

Ms. Means discussed many women and organizations, including:

from http://www.gayrva.com/news-views/remembering-dorothy-height/Dorothy Height

from http://www.blackpast.org/aah/combahee-river-collective-1974-1980

The Combahee River Collective Statement

What portions of Ms. Means' lecture do you remember most?  Which one of the women mentioned impressed you the most?  Which his/herstories do find inspiring?

Affrilachia Discussion with Frank X Walker

Frank X Walker (born June 11, 1961) is an African-American poet from Danville, Kentucky. Walker coined the word "Affrilachia", signifying the importance of the African-American presence in Appalachia: the "new word ... spoke to the union of Appalachian identity and the region's African-American culture and history". As of 2013, he is the Poet Laureate of Kentucky.

from http://kybookfair.blogspot.com/2014/11/frank-x-walker.html 

Awards

• 2004 Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award
• 2006 Thomas D. Clark Literary Award for Excellence, Actors Theatre's Keeper of the Chronicle Award
• 2005 Recipient of a $75,000 Lannan Literary Fellowship in Poetry
• Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Fellowship recipient
• 2013-14 Kentucky Poet Laureate
• 2014 NAACP Image Award: Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry.

Poetry

• Isaac Murphy: I dedicate this ride
• When Winter Come: the Ascension of York. University Press of Kentucky. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8131-9184-3.
• Black Box. Old Cove Press. 2005. ISBN 0-9675424-1-3.
• Buffalo Dance: the Journey of York. University Press of Kentucky. 2003. ISBN 0-8131-9088-6.
• Affrilachia. Old Cove Press. 2000. ISBN 0-9675424-0-5

from http://www.crmagazine.org/archive/SpringSummer2010Sidebars/Pages/AHotbedofCancer.aspx

How did Frank X Walker's discussion/reading  affirm, challenge or change what you understand about American culture, African American culture and/or Kentucky?

Why We Laugh : Black Comedians on Black Comedy and a History Minstrelsy

Greetings, Class Community.

The picture above is of Bert Williams, the black actor that performed in blackface in the early 1900s. He was mentioned during our review.  We explored the history of Black entertainers within the context of historical racism and the legacy of minstrelsy.

How did our explorations affirm, change or complicate your understanding of African American Studies and American culture?

Frank X Walker at the Lyric Theater Cultural Center

Students,

Please come to the Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center on Wednesday night, Nov. 5, at 7 PM, to look at Prof. Frank X. Walker's curated show of original comics.  It's called "The Black Superhero."  

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