Irvin, Jessye
Interviewer:
Chumbley, Kenneth
Transcription available:
no
Series:
African American Community Interviews
Interview Number(s):
__461
Summary:
Irvin discusses her childhood in Hopkinsville, Kentucky; her primary and secondary education there; her move to Louisville in 1950, a city she found to be "friendly to Blacks, but very segregated"; involvement in open housing demonstrations in Louisville's south end, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and work in Democratic politics as a precinct co -captain, captain, and committee woman.
Topic(s):
African Americans--Kentucky--Louisville, Civil rights demonstrations, Discrimination in housing, Democratic Party (Ky.), Segregation, King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
