About Lee Durham Stone: Lee Durham Stone was born in the Bluegrass State (Lebanon); grew up in Central City, Muhlenberg County, as a printer’s devil in his father and uncle’s newspaper (the Central City Times-Argus); graduated from the University of Kentucky (1970); and inspected strip mines for the Department of Natural Resources in eastern Kentucky (Hazard Area Office). From Appalachia, he served three-and-a-half years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica (1979-1982). After Peace … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Lee Durham Stone
Across the Kentucky Color Line: Cultural Landscapes of Race from the Lost Cause to Integration by Lee Durham Stone
This history book focuses on Western Kentucky, particularly Muhlenberg County. It examines racial relations and violence after the Civil War to school integration in the 1960s. A strength of this work is the contextualizing of the events that are explored in detail, expanding outward to other areas of the Bluegrass State and the South. This volume begins with the author remembering the uncanny segregated experience of going with his white fourth-grade class to see "The Ten Commandments" movie … [Read more...] about Across the Kentucky Color Line: Cultural Landscapes of Race from the Lost Cause to Integration by Lee Durham Stone
