Passing for Black: The Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd
by Wade Hall
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Wade Hall Quilts
Author Wade Hall donated 100 hand-made quilts, part of his folk art collection, to the University of Kentuckys William T. Young Library.
Constitutional Amendments
One of my proudest achievements [in the Kentucky legislature] was the ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution in 1976. Believe it or not, but Kentucky had never officially passed the amendments abolishing slavery ...page 124
African-American Signal Corps Units in World War II
Kidd was also proud of her own role in keeping her brother out of the Army infantry in World War II. It was her intervention, she says, that prompted the creation of the 258th Signal Corps, in which her brother served (mostly in Canada and Alaska).
Millersburg
Mae Street Kidds hometown.
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