From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

The Daily Aesthetic website on African American parks in Lexington, Kentucky, prior to integration in 1956.

Created: 1997-1998 - © Boyd Landerson Shearer, Jr.

"The purpose of this site is to engage and facilitate discussion in a remarkable African-American urban history and experience in Lexington, Kentucky. Focusing on the parks and recreational spaces of African-American communities prior to legal integration of public facilities in 1956, this site will add to an understaning of African-American park history. This site will explore how African-American communities used segregated public parks to construct multiple and uplifting identities, despite the racial oppression of the segregated US South."

Narratives

Oral Histories

Photographs