Reinette Jones
UK librarians Reinette Jones and Rob Akin spoke this
week at the Martin Luther King Cultural Center as part of the African-American
and African Studies Program Carter G. Woodson Lecture Series. Reinette and Rob described their work with
the The Notable Kentucky African Americans (NKAA) database.
Rob Aken
NKAA was originally a website with a series of
individual web pages listing approximately 200 biographical entries on African
Americans in and from the state of Kentucky. The site went live in September
2003. It consisted of one entry for each person arranged under the profession
or activity in which they were notable, with references to sources of
additional information.
“The Notable Kentucky African Americans (NKAA)
Database, sponsored by the University of Kentucky Libraries, is the first
database developed to provide biographical and historical information
concerning
African Americans in a particular U.S. state. “
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