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Description
"According to the Equal Justice Initiative lynchings across the United States numbered in the thousands between 1870 and 1960. Historian George Wright estimates there were 353 people lynched in Kentucky in this time period, “placing Kentucky ninth among states with the largest number of mob murders.” For instance, between 1877 and 1934, Fulton County, Kentucky witnessed 19 lynchings of African Americans. From the western border of Missouri to the eastern border of North Carolina, nearly every county in Kentucky recorded a lynching.
Dr. Nikki Brown, Jennifer Hootman, and six undergraduate research assistants are a collaborative team that has created Documenting Racial Violence in Kentucky (the DRVK Project). This digital archive composes biographical narratives of lynching victims in Kentucky between 1880 and 1955 and has made these stories available through an interactive website. To date, the DRVK project has posted biographies for 40 people between 1900 and 1910 on its website, drvk.createuky.net. This digital humanities tool is expanding to include not only maps and detailed information by county, but also lesson plans and bibliographies. Each semester, a new team of undergraduate research assistants is formed.
Conceptually, the DRVK Project enhances public knowledge about lynching, particularly the generation impact of racial violence in the 20th century affect Kentucky's approach on policing, education, and politics in the 21st century. The primary methodology of the DRVK Project is the promotion of student research and map creation, allowing the project to focus on how racial disparities in policing and the justice system in the early 1900s carries a dark, historical legacy over 100 years later. Students are provided with essential experiential learning. Student interns have practiced the detective work archival research requires, learning to use microfilm, census records, court transcripts, city directories, property deeds and more, under the careful direction of professor advisors. "
Dr. Nikki Brown, Jennifer Hootman, and six undergraduate research assistants are a collaborative team that has created Documenting Racial Violence in Kentucky (the DRVK Project). This digital archive composes biographical narratives of lynching victims in Kentucky between 1880 and 1955 and has made these stories available through an interactive website. To date, the DRVK project has posted biographies for 40 people between 1900 and 1910 on its website, drvk.createuky.net. This digital humanities tool is expanding to include not only maps and detailed information by county, but also lesson plans and bibliographies. Each semester, a new team of undergraduate research assistants is formed.
Conceptually, the DRVK Project enhances public knowledge about lynching, particularly the generation impact of racial violence in the 20th century affect Kentucky's approach on policing, education, and politics in the 21st century. The primary methodology of the DRVK Project is the promotion of student research and map creation, allowing the project to focus on how racial disparities in policing and the justice system in the early 1900s carries a dark, historical legacy over 100 years later. Students are provided with essential experiential learning. Student interns have practiced the detective work archival research requires, learning to use microfilm, census records, court transcripts, city directories, property deeds and more, under the careful direction of professor advisors. "
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 12/9/22 → 12/18/23 |
Funding
- University of Kentucky UNITE Research Priority Area: $11,766.00
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