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Creation Date
2000
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Poster on notable Kentucky women titled "Our Legacy, Our Future" created by the Kentucky Commission on Women and the Kentucky Department of Education, Division of Equality. Significant contributions made by Western Kentucky University Folk Studies professor Dr. Ann Ferrell. It shows a large drawing of Kentucky women surrounding a silhouette of the state. Names are listed by category (e.g. education, military, science, reform, religion, etc.) on the borders of the poster along with drawings that symbolize each category. Brief biographies of each woman and her accomplishments are listed on the back of the poster. These include:
Minnie Adkins, Sophia Kindrick Alcorn, Elmer Lucille Allen, Harriette Arnow, Nelda Barton-Collings, Frances Estill Beauchamp, Jennie Benedict, Malinda Gatewood Bibb, Sallie Bingham, Nancye Blackburn, Linda Boileau, Ruth Booe, Joy Field Bale Boone, Anne Braden, Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, Mary Carson Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Mary E. Britton, Hannah E. Brooks, Clara Brown, Jamison Brumm, Catherine Carpenter, Nannie R. Catlett, Louise Caudill, Terri Cecil-Ramsey, Willa Beatrice Brown Chappell, Ollie Childress, Anna Mac Clarke, Laura Clay, Mary Barr Clay, Rosemary Clooney, Jane Burch Cochran, Governor Martha Layne Collins, Sara Combs, Martha Comer, Jane Coomes, Carmen Ray Coyle, Jane Todd Crawford, Emma Guy Cromwell, Mayor Karen L. Cunningham, Diane Dailey, Joan Dance, Laura Ellen Derry, Mary Desha, Julia Dinsmore, Alice Allison Dunnigan, Clara Eagle, Bettie Lou Evans, Helen Horlacher Evans, Elizabeth Barrett, Ann Lewis, Mimi Pickering, Justine Richardson, Verna D. Fairchild, Mary Elliot Flanery, Elizabeth Cooke Fouse, Laura Freeman, Heather French, Katherine Jackson French, Helen Fisher Frye, Margaret Garner, Katherine Garrett, Crystal Gayle, Janice Holt Giles, Caroline Gordon, Lois Gray, Mary "Cissy" Peterson Gregg, Geri Grigsby, Sarah Ogan Gunning, Eula Hall, Susan Harkins, Florence Henderson, Josephine Henry, Patty Smith Hill, Bell Hooks, Hon. Judge Margaret Huddleston, Allyson Hughes, Helen Humes, Robin Hunt, Louise Frances Gilman Hutchins, Margaret Ingels, Virginia Mason Ivey, Belle Mitchell Jackson, Mary Magdelene "Aunt Molly" Jackson, Grace Marilyn James, Alice Elizabeth DeArmond Jones, Gayl Jones, Ashley Judd, Naomi Judd, Wynonna Judd, Evelyn Kalb, Mae Street Kidd, Barbara Kingsolver, Louise Gasser Kirtley, Sarah Gertrude Knott, Juanita Morris Kreps, Helen La France, Helen Lew Lang, Katherine Gudger Langley, Lily May Ledford, Alma Wallace Lesch, Mary Todd Lincoln, Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, Bernadette Locke-Mattox, Mildred Summers Lucas, Loretta Lynn, Mattie Mack, Julia Ann Marcum, Lucille Markey, Janice Reed Martin, Belinda Mason, Bobbie Ann Mason, Alice Jane Alka Mayo, Tori Murden McClure, Barclay McCoy, Anne McGinty, Tamara McKinney, Alice "Dolly" McNutt, Mary T. Meagher Plant, Una Merkel, Mary Millicent Garretson Miller, Lucy Dupey Montz, Caroline Conn Moore, Eldress Nancy Moore, Lois Morris, Kathleen Mulligan, Elaine Musselman, Carry Nation, Patricia Neal, Linda Neville, Marsha Norman, Eliza Caroline Calvert Obenchain, Pearl Carter Pace, Judi Conway Patton, Audrey Whitlock Peterson, Katherine Pettit, Susan Pfeiffer, Lena Madesin Phillips, Ora Framer Porter, Annie Potts, Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers, Sarah Frances Price, Alma Randolph, Reel World String Band (Bev Futrell, Karen Jones, Sue Massek), Charlotte Richardson, Sarah Richardson, Jean Ritchie, Joan Robinette, Gaylia Rooks, Diane Sawyer, Winnie A. Scott, Rebekka Seigel, Dixie Seldon, Ellen Churchill Semple, Mary Carmichael Settles, Alice Slone, Verna Mae Slone, Effie Waller Smith, Lt. Colonel Linda Smith, Lucie Harth Smith, Lillian H. South, Louise Southgate, Mother Catherine Spalding, Jane Stephenson, Cora Wilson Stewart, May Stone, Thelma Stovall, Addie Talbott, Caroline Burnham Taylor, Julia Ann Tevis, Helen Thomas, Jean Bell Thomas, Amelia Tucker, Marie Roberts Turner, Delia Ann Webster, Mary Sue Whayne, Mary Wheeler, Corinne Whitehead, Esther Whitley, Jenny Wiley, Evelyn Williams, Emily Wolfson, Louisa Woosley, Enid Yandell, and Mary Yeiser.