- Collection:
- African American Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Eleanor Young Love
- Creator:
- Love, Eleanor Young, 1922-2006
Chumbley, Kenneth Lawrence - Publisher:
- Audiocassette tapes number 646 & 647, African American Oral History Collection, Oral History Center, University of Louisville Archives and Records Center.
- Date of Original:
- 1978-10-02
- Subject:
- African American universities and colleges--Kentucky
African Americans--Kentucky--Louisville
African Americans--Education--Kentucky
African Americans--Social conditions
African American social workers--Kentucky--Louisville
Segregation in education--Kentucky
Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.)
Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.)--Faculty
School closings--Kentucky--Simpsonville
School integration--Kentucky
African American schools--Kentucky--Simpsonville
African American educators--Kentucky
African American college teachers--Kentucky--Louisville
Civil rights workers--Kentucky--Louisville
Civil rights workers--United States
African American civil rights workers--Kentucky--Louisville
African American civil rights workers
Kentucky State College (Frankfort, Ky.)
African American universities and colleges--Kentucky--Frankfort
Civil rights--Kentucky--Louisville
African Americans--Civil rights--Kentucky--Louisville
African American soldiers--Civil rights
World War, 1939-1945--African Americans
University of Louisville
Student movments--Kentucky--Louisville
Protest movements--Kentucky--Louisville
Demonstrations--Kentucky--Louisville
Discrimination in higher education--Kentucky
African American college students--Kentucky--Louisville
Faculty integration--Kentucky--Louisville
Civil rights movements--United States
Black militant organizations--United States
Black Panther Party
National Urban League
Lincoln Foundation (Louisville, Ky.)
Public schools--Kentucky--Jefferson County - People:
- Young, Whitney M.
Young, Whitney M., 1897-1975
Young, Laura R., 1896-1962
Miller, James Grier
Hudson, J. Blaine
Love, Eleanor Young, 1922-2006 - Location:
- United States, Kentucky, Franklin County, 38.23915, -84.87707
United States, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, 38.20091, -84.87328
United States, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 38.25424, -85.75941
United States, Kentucky, Shelby County, 38.21544, -85.19477
United States, Kentucky, Shelby County, Simpsonville, 38.22257, -85.35523 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Sound
Text - Description:
- Oral history interview with Eleanor Young Love, conducted on October 2, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Dr. Love was a U of L professor and administrator, and sister of civil rights leader Whitney Young, Jr. Dr. Love discusses her parents, Laura and Whitney Young, Sr., their lives and involvement with Lincoln Institute in Simpsonville, Kentucky. Dr. Love and her brother were born in Lincoln Ridge, while her father was a teacher at Lincoln Institute, and she discusses the education they received there, and the atmosphere of safety and support that was fostered at Lincoln Institute. She describes her father's tenure as principal. She describes her experiences at Kentucky State, and also discusses her brother's emergence as a leader there. She recounts his subsequent service in the Army during World War II, where he discovered his ability to negotiate; specifically, he realized his ability to negotiate better conditions for his fellow black soldiers. She relates his educational experiences following his return to the States, and his involvement in a Harvard-based think tank. She discusses his involvement with the Urban League, and his relationships with those who chose different approaches to furthering the equal rights of African Americans. She describes the role of the Black Panthers and the riots, particularly in Detroit, in drawing some supporters to the Urban League. She also gives her perspective on the University of Louisville, which she came to in 1966 as a GE scholar. Dr. Love was quickly identified as a skilled negotiator, and she became involved in working students, including the students who eventually took over the office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1969. She offers criticism of the University of Louisville at that time (and in the 1970s) for failing to recruit and support black students and faculty. She does commend President Miller for his support of programs for students needing skill-building work. She gives her assessment of area public schools, and the possible reasons for their shortcomings. Dr. Love also headed the Lincoln Institute at the end of its days, from 1964 to 1966, and she discusses that experience. She recounts its closing, its brief life as a school for gifted and talent students, and its rebirth as the Whitney M. Young Job Corps Center. She discusses briefly the origins and role of the Lincoln Foundation.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://ohc.library.louisville.edu/interviews/record.php?q=Love%2C%20Eleanor%20Young
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- To inquire about reproductions, permissions, or for information about prices see: http://library.louisville.edu/uarc/digicollorder.html; please cite the Interview Number when ordering.
- Extent:
- application/pdf; audio/mp3;
01:30:28; 45 pages - Original Collection:
- African American Community Interviews Collection (William F. Ekstrom Library. University Archives and Records Center)
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Louisville. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections
- Rights:
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