Talk:Cadentown School

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Cadentown School was an important gathering place for an historic African-American community - see more at Wikimapia entry. In one instance the school served as a site for a local civil rights protest in 1901. These local histories are often considered not notable, even though for those who are so regularly underrepresented in our histories and in news accounts today, these sites are crucially important. Perhaps someone will build a Wikipedia entry about this little village and I (Randolph.hollingsworth (talk) 15:38, 26 July 2014 (UTC)) hope they will be able to use the information that was deleted from this article as "extraneous" by an eager Wikipedian.[reply]

Early Cadentown Celebrities[edit]

  • Charles Slaughter, Sr.; Charles Slaughter, Jr.; W.C. Martin, teacher; Smith Slaughter; Mack and Belle Maupin; C.S. (or J.S.) Johnson; Frank (or Grant) Seales; and, Charles Howard: the 10 Cadentown residents arrested in a protest led by women against the local Democratic Party leaders' partisan appointment of a young Lexington Democrat, G.W. Graves, as their teacher[1]
  • John W. Jewett, teacher in Cadentown (1890) who later served as president of the Fayette County Teachers Association and a Republican delegate to state conventions[2]
  • Sister Roxy Turner, founder and head of the Power Church (or Power Society) who used the Methodist church in Cadentown for services[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "School Row". Lexington Leader. Lexington, KY. 20 August 1901.
  2. ^ "Jewett, John W." Lexington, KY: Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, University of Kentucky Libraries. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Turner, Roxy". Lexington, KY: Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, University of Kentucky Libraries. Retrieved 13 September 2013.