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- catalog abstract "In 1976, Kentucky state legislator Mae Street Kidd successfully sponsored a resolution ratifying the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It was fitting that a black woman should initiate the state's formal repudiation of slavery; that it was Mrs. Kidd was all the more appropriate. Born in Millersburg, Kentucky, in 1904 to a black mother and a white father, Mae grew up to be a striking woman with fair skin and light hair. Sometimes accused of trying. To pass for white in a segregated society, Mae felt that she was doing the opposite - choosing to assert her black identity. Passing for Black is her story, in her own words, of how she lived in this racial limbo and the obstacles it presented. As a Kentucky woman of color during a pioneering period of minority and women's rights, Mae Street Kidd seized every opportunity to get ahead. She attended a black boarding academy after high school and went on to become a. Successful businesswoman in the insurance and cosmetic industries in a time when few women, black or white, were able to compete in a male-dominated society. She also served with the American Red Cross in England during World War II. It was not until she was in her sixties that she turned to politics, sitting for seventeen years in the Kentucky General Assembly, where she crusaded vigorously for housing rights.".
- catalog contributor b9681426.
- catalog contributor b9681427.
- catalog contributor b9681428.
- catalog contributor b9681429.
- catalog coverage "Kentucky Race relations.".
- catalog coverage "Louisville (Ky.) Biography.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "In 1976, Kentucky state legislator Mae Street Kidd successfully sponsored a resolution ratifying the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It was fitting that a black woman should initiate the state's formal repudiation of slavery; that it was Mrs. Kidd was all the more appropriate. Born in Millersburg, Kentucky, in 1904 to a black mother and a white father, Mae grew up to be a striking woman with fair skin and light hair. Sometimes accused of trying.".
- catalog description "Successful businesswoman in the insurance and cosmetic industries in a time when few women, black or white, were able to compete in a male-dominated society. She also served with the American Red Cross in England during World War II. It was not until she was in her sixties that she turned to politics, sitting for seventeen years in the Kentucky General Assembly, where she crusaded vigorously for housing rights.".
- catalog description "To pass for white in a segregated society, Mae felt that she was doing the opposite - choosing to assert her black identity. Passing for Black is her story, in her own words, of how she lived in this racial limbo and the obstacles it presented. As a Kentucky woman of color during a pioneering period of minority and women's rights, Mae Street Kidd seized every opportunity to get ahead. She attended a black boarding academy after high school and went on to become a.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 193 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Passing for Black.".
- catalog identifier "0813119960 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Passing for Black.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,".
- catalog relation "Passing for Black.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky".
- catalog spatial "Louisville (Ky.) Biography.".
- catalog subject "976.9/04/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "African American women legislators Kentucky Biography.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Kentucky History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "E185.97.K44 A3 1997".
- catalog subject "E185.97.K44 H35 1997".
- catalog subject "Kentucky. General Assembly Biography.".
- catalog subject "Kidd, Mae Street, 1904-".
- catalog subject "Racially mixed people Kentucky Biography.".
- catalog subject "Racially mixed women Kentucky Biography.".
- catalog title "Passing for Black : the life and careers of Mae Street Kidd / Wade Hall.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".