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From 1945 to 1973, it is estimated that up to 4 million parents in the United States had children placed for adoption, with 2 million during the 1960s alone. [2] Annual numbers for non-relative adoptions increased from an estimated 33,800 in 1951 to a peak of 89,200 in 1970, then quickly declined to an estimated 47,700 in 1975.
Women were very involved in the project which eventually had 30 different libraries serving 100,000 people. Pack horse librarians were known by many different names including "book women," "book ladies," and "packsaddle librarians." [1]: 290 The project helped employ around 200 people and reached around 100,000 residents in rural Kentucky. [2]
Foxfire Books series, from the magazine of the same name, popular with the 1970s back-to-the-land movement; Steal this book, by yippie Abbie Hoffman, 1971, a guide to living with little or no money, and to living outside the rules of establishment culture; Our Bodies, Ourselves, by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, 1973
The commission determined that Kentucky women's status would be improved through a permanent agency and Governor Louie Nunn signed an executive order establishing the Kentucky Commission on Women in November 1968. Legislative action made the Commission official in 1970. In 1978, the Kentucky Commission on Women started a campaign to recognize ...
The book aims to teach people that adoption is a wonderful way to build a forever family. New book teaches families about adoption, based on real-life story of senior dog Skip to main content
IN FOCUS: When Daisy Boulton stumbled across ‘A Woman on the Edge of Time’, a son’s book exploring the life and suicide of his mother, she felt an overwhelming connection. Helen Coffey talks ...
A History of the Woman's Club of Central Kentucky, 1894-1994. Lexington, Kentucky: Woman's Club of Central Kentucky. Crowe-Carraco, Carol (1989). Women Who Made a Difference. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813109019. Fuller, Paul E. (1975). Laura Clay and the Woman's Rights Movement. Lexington, Kentucky: University ...
Those photographs fill the book that will commemorate 150 Kentucky Derbys — hundreds of little moments combined with stories from reporters Kirby Adams, Jason Frakes and Maggie Menderski to tell ...