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Lexington, Kentucky. U.S.A
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African American Heritage Trail in Downtown Lexington

Borries, B.E. Isaac Murphy: Kentucky's Record Jockey.   Berea, Kentucky: Kentucke Imprints, 1988.

Hopkins, S. "Down memory lane: A place in history." Lexington Herald-Leader (March 22,2000).

Lacer, B.  "Professor revisits her past."  Kentucky Kernel (November 25, 1996).

Lexington-Fayette County Historic Commission, "Henry Clay's Building"/ William w. Worsley Printing House.  Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory, June 1979.  Site No. Fa-LDT-193.

McIntyre, L.  One grain of the salt:  The First African Baptist Church West of the Allegheny Mountians.   L.H. McIntyre, 1986.

Peoples, T. (ed.). Essence of a Saga; A Complete History of the Oldest Black Baptist Congregation West of the Allegheny Mountains. Historic Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church. Lexington, Kentucky, 1990.

Stewart, F. "Professor works to ensure early black doctors not forgotten." Communi-K 21 (August 29, 1988).

Wilkinson, D. Directory of Afro-American Physicians in Lexington and Fayette County from Post-Reconstruction to the Pre-Civil rights Era: 1890-1950 .  Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky, Department of Sociology, 1989.

Williams, J.  "The revolution of 1954." Kentucky Kernel (October 14, 1999).

Wright, J. Lexington: A Century in Photographs.  Lexington, Kentucky . Lexington-Fayette County Historic Commission, 1984.

Source: Doris Wilkinson "A Guide to the African American Heritage in Downtown Lexington, Kentucky." Copyright 2000

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Doris Wilkinson
Project on the African American Heritage
c/o Department of Sociology
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027

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© 2008
Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau
301 East Vine Street
Lexington, KY 40507-1513
Visitor Info: 1-800-845-3959 or 859-233-7299
Group Info: 1-800-848-1224 or 859-233-1221