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In February 2013, the Kentucky Historical Society erected a historical marker in the park to commemorate the African-Americans who enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War. [17] In May 1864, the group of 250 men – mostly slaves , but including some freedmen – marched from Danville to nearby Camp Nelson in Jessamine County , where ...
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". [1]
Helen Fisher Frye (June 24, 1918 – November 26, 2014) was an American educator and churchwoman who was a local leader for civil rights in her hometown of Danville, Kentucky, serving as the president of the Danville chapter of the NAACP.
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 109.3/4 (2011): 327–350. online; Kleber, John E. Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison and James C. Klotter, eds, The Kentucky Encyclopedia (1992) online; Lucas, Marion B. "African Americans on the Kentucky Frontier." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 95.2 (1997): 121–134. online
Danville and Boyle County Black history is the subject of a 2022 book published by Arcadia Press, as "African Americans in Boyle County." Martha S. Jones opens her book Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, with her family story of three generations who resided in Danville.
Location of Boyle County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Boyle County, Kentucky. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Boyle County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Other notable African American women in Kentucky's NAACP throughout history include: Olive Burroughs (1951–2003), the first African-American woman elected to the Owensboro, Kentucky City Commission [12] Rev. Rhondalyn Randolph, President of NAACP Owensboro Branch 3107 2014–present. First woman pastor of Pleasant Point Missionary Baptist Church.
The history of slavery in Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state, until the end of the Civil War. In 1830, enslaved African Americans represented 24 percent of Kentucky's population, a share that declined to 19.5 percent by 1860, on the eve of the Civil War.