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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
Constitution Square Historic Site is a 3-acre (0.012 km 2) park and open-air museum in Danville, Kentucky.From 1937 to 2012, it was a part of the Kentucky state park system and operated by the Kentucky Department of Parks.
Danville is a home rule-class city [6] and the county seat of Boyle County, Kentucky, United States. [7] The population was 17,236 at the 2020 census. [8] Danville is the principal city of the Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of the Boyle and Lincoln counties.
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]
The preservation of African-American cemeteries is an integral part of documenting Black history and heritage. Many lands where enslaved or freed black individuals were buried are threatened by development and neglect though new efforts are underway to protect these historic places.
April 11, 1973 (Main and 4th Sts. Danville: 7: Judge John Boyle House: November 25, 1980 (North of Danville on Bellows Mill Rd. Danville: Demolished in 2017.
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.
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is a learned society dedicated to the study and appreciation of African-American History.The association was founded in Chicago on September 9, 1915, [1] during the National Half Century Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee, as the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) by Carter G. Woodson, William B ...