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West End Community Council
The West End Community Council in Louisville, Kentucky was an open housing organization that was founded in 1945 and remained active until 1970. This group became a broad human rights group with the help of its first executive director, Hulbert James. The women in this organization battled throughout the scare tactics imposed by white residents in segregated parts of Louisville, Kentucky in the 1960s.
==Origins==
In the 1800s the West End, an area of Louisville west of 7th Street and north of Algonquin Parkway, was a prominent hub for African American activity primarily that of abolitionist blacks (and whites). What was significant about West End was that after the Civil War, it was one of the few places in which Louisville's African Americans could have a political voice. In fact, each year, one black would sit on the local community council each year to assist with community related deliberations and decision making. Some trace the group's activist work back to the 1930s and the Lincolnia Council which was a group that worked to secure better library and recreational equipment for its neighborhood. The first documented source of the West End Community Council was in 1946 when the ''Cincinnati Times-Star'' reported advocacy by the local African Americans as part of the Negro Community Council. The actual name "West End Community Council" does not appear in the ''Times-Star'' until the 1950s.
The Council organization by the 1960s included a Board of Directors made up of the chairpersons of eleven standing committees and of representatives from each of the seven districts in the West End. The Board was led by four elected officers (chairperson, vice-chairperson, secretary and treasurer) and an executive committee which held monthly meetings. Until 1965 the work of the Council was conducted by volunteers and funding from local donors and membership fees. A grant from the United Church of Christ and funding from the federal Head Start Program allowed the Council to begin holding neighborhood festivals to celebrate local talent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Wisconsin Historical Society )〕
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