Okolona (Louisville, Ky.)

Jann Westerfield Ballard talks about her life experiences growing up in the Okolona community and the experiences of African-American property owners on Cooper Chapel and Maple Roads, their community during the early 1950s, and how it changed or remained the same in the following forty year. The interview also covers Ballard's experience of public school integration and busing protests in the Cooper Chapel Road neighborhood and the community of Okolona.

Mary Lizzie Boyd talks about her life experiences growing up near Okolona, an neighborhood in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The interview focuses on the lives of African Americans in the first quarter of the twentieth century in this rural neighborhood. The narrator talks specifically about her role as a single, African American woman head of household and her work as a domestic for white families.

Personal history of Doris Chapman. Relates to Louisville, Kentucky childhood; the Great Depression; the 1937 flood; living in Camp Taylor; World War II; German POWs in Louisville; Okolona; bussing; working at GE; and the 1974 tornado. (Interview index available)

Louise Russell Sloan talks about her life experiences growing up near Okolona, a rural neighborhood in Jefferson County, Kentucky during the first quarter of the twentieth century. She talks about African American property owners in the Cooper Chapel Road area and how peoples lives centered around family, farm, neighbors, and church. Mrs. Sloan later had a seventeen-year career as a school bus driver.