Georgia Powers: an Unlikely Journey, the Proof She was There

Abstract

Black women's historical, social, and political visibility in Kentucky is necessary for "black feminist" scholarship and discourse, but importantly, for maintaining Kentucky's history. The black "woman experience" in the past has been and still is very invisible. A telling of Georgia Powers' history from a sociological perspective links her story within the social, political, feminist, and historical context of our nation's history. Black women through the centuries have wanted to share their experiences and tell how they labored for common causes. This woman through her gendered modernizing politics has done much to encourage people/citizens to believe public engagement is worth the time.