Women in Kentucky - Our Legacy, Our Future
Welcome to Our Legacy, Our Future, a site that celebrates the lives of Kentucky women, past and present. By telling stories to some of Kentucky's greatest women; Our Legacy, Our Future seeks to encourage:
Greater voter participation among young women |
More Women to view public services as a viable career option |
More interest in the history of women in Kentucky |
About the Women of Kentucky
This web site is one of a 4-part project resulting from a partnership between the Kentucky Commission on Women, under the Office of the Governor; the Kentucky Department of Educatuions, Division of Equity, Devision of Customer Support Services and Division of Curriculum; and Kentucky Educational Television.
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Sitemap:
A. What
Art
Business
Education
Health/Medicine
Journalism
Law
Literature
Military
Music
Performing Arts
Pioneer
Public Service
Reform
Religion
Science
Sports
B. When
View a selected history of women
View a selected history of women
Sounds and images
Civil War Diaries
C. Where
Central / Northern Kentucky
Western Kentucky
Eastern Kentucky
Southern Kentucky
D.Resources
Links
Selected Readings
Educational Tools
Web tools
Archival Collections
Children's Books
E. About this Project
Women in Sports:
Minnie Adkins
Elizabeth Barret, Anne Lewis, Mimi Pickering, & Justine Richardson
Jane Burch Cochran
Joan Dance
Enid Yandell
Women in Business:
Nelda Barton-Collings
Julia Dinsmore
Laura Freeman
Mattie Mack
Lena Madesin Phillips
Caroline Burnam Taylor
Women in Education:
Helen Lew Lang
Katherine Pettit
Jane Stephenson
Cora Wilson Stewart
Women in Health/Medicine:
Mary Britton
Linda Neville
Ora Framer Porter
Louise Southgate, M.D.
Women in Journalism:
Linda Boileau
Alice Allison Dunnigan
Women in Law:
Pearl Carter Pace
Lt. Colonel Linda Smith
Women in Literature:
Effie Waller Smith
Women in Military:
Lt. Anna Mac Clarke
Capt. Helen Horlacher Evans
Julia Ann Marcum
Women in Music:
Sarah Ogan Gunning
Helen Humes
Lily May Ledford
Reel World String Band
Jean Ritchie
Mary Wheeler
Women as Pioneers:
Esther Whitley
Women in Public Service:
Governor Martha Layne Collins
Emma Guy Cromwell
Rep. Mary Elliott Flanery
Sen. Georgia Davis Powers
Lt. Gov. Thelma Stovall
Women in Reform:
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
Laura Clay
Eula Hall
Josephine Henry
Belinda Mason
Lois Morris
Eliza Caroline Calvert Obenchain
Charlotte Richardson
Joan Robinett
Mary Sue Whayne
Corinne Whitehead
Evelyn Williams
Women in Religion:
Eldress Nancy Moore
Rabbi Gaylia Rooks
Women in Science:
Sarah Frances Price
Ellen Churchill Semple
Women in Sports:
Terri Cecil-Ramsey
Geri Grigsby
Audrey Whitlock Peterson
Mary T. Meagher Plant
