Interview with Florence A. Young, January 13, 1989

Interview Summary

Young remembers getting a state scholarship from Ohio to go to college. She also talks about the AMEs who got together and built a school for black children leaving the South on the Underground Railroad. Young talks about important African Americans that she knew of during her childhood, including her own father who was on the city council around 1912-1914. She recalls what she knew about the Colored Orphan Industrial Home in Lexington, Kentucky (which later became the Robert H. Williams Children's Home and Cultural Center). She discusses the local black businesses and black life in Lexington, Kentucky. She discusses her mother, as well as African American social life and prominent figures in Lexington.

Interview Keyword

African American physicians African American teachers Boards of directors City council members Colored Orphan Industrial Home (Lexington, Ky.) Colored Orphan Industrial Home--Lexington (Ky.) E. Belle Jackson Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Lexington, Ky.) Robert H. Williams Children's Home and Cultural Center Robert H. Williams Cultural Center Slavery--United States Teenage pregnancy Underground Railroad

Interview LC Subject

African American business enterprises African American teachers African American women African Americans African Americans--Education (Higher) African Americans--Education African Americans--Social conditions Children--Institutional care Children--Kentucky Lexington (Ky.) Lexington (Ky.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Orphanages Orphans Women in charitable work Women in nonprofit organizations

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