Allen, Elmer Lucille

2020-12-10

Jones, Michael

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Unfair Housing in Louisville

2021_025

2021_25_8

Elmer Lucille Allen grew up in the Russell neighborhood in the 1930s and 40s. Allen described the neighborhood in the days before urban renewal in the late 1950s. She attended Madison Street Junior High School and Central High School during segregation. She attended Louisville Municipal College, the African American arm of the University of Louisville. After the Supreme Court desegregated schools in 1954, UofL closed Louisville Municipal College and Allen went on the Nazareth College (now Spalding University). She became the first African American chemist at Brown-Foreman.

Urban renewal, Russell (Louisville, Ky.), Housing--Kentucky--Louisville, Segregation--Kentucky--Louisville, School integration--Kentucky--Louisville