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Nancy Green became one of the first prosperous African American women in the U.S. Green was born enslaved in Montgomery County, Kentucky, in 1834. While in Kentucky she worked for the Walker family and moved with them to Chicago just after the Great Fire, in 1872. Eight years later, Nancy Green became "Aunt Jemima." Businessman R.T. Davis had purchased a pre-mixed, self-rising recipe for pancakes and wanted an "Aunt Jemima," a character from minstrel shows which were popular at the time, to be the face of his pancakes. "Aunt Jemima" would be a friendly, animated, African American cook who served a wealthy white family. Playing the role of "Aunt Jemima" gave Green financial independence few African Americans and few women experienced at the time. She used her wealth as a means to empower her community. She was particularly active in her church, leading missionary trips, investing in anti-poverty programs for African Americans, and advocating for equal rights. Though her work depended on a derogatory racial stereotype, her financial success demonstrates how black Americans could sometimes play on and use such images to their advantage.

Join us for this amazing Kentucky Chautauqua program by Debra Faulk.

This program was funded in part by Kentucky Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  

Location: Kentucky Museum 

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Chewing-gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a firebrand wrestler, a notorious murder case and the segregated south – it’s all part of Nellie Mae Rowe’s boundless universe. This World is Not My Own reimagines this self-taught artist’s world and her life spanning the 20th century. With Uzo Aduba as the animated version of Nellie Mae Rowe.

Free tickets are available at capitolbg.org. After the screening, a Q&A with filmmakers will be offered.

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

All halls close at 6 PM for Spring Break except Pearce Ford Tower, Meredith Hall, and Zacharias Hall. 

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/events/springbreak.php

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

The residence halls will reopen from Spring Break on Sunday, March 23, 2025 at noon. 

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew