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The goal of H-Kentucky is to create an online collaborative environment to facilitate communication and the exchange or scholarly and pedagogical ideas among teachers, researchers, scholars, advanced students, and related professionals (e.g. local historians, librarians, archivists, genealogists), all in an open, democratic, respectful and non-partisan manner. H-Kentucky especially welcomes those who are interested in Kentucky, as well as those in any history/humanities field who live and/or work in Kentucky. 

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Image published by Randolph Hollingsworth on Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Mary Barr Clay - photo from Goodman, Bitter Harvest

Photograph of Mary Barr Clay (1839-1924) perhaps sometime in the 1870s when she was starting up her career as a suffragist - she was named after her maternal grandmother, Mary Barr Warfield. See her KWSP biosketch here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/2289/discussions/154189/mary-barr-clay

Link published by Randolph Hollingsworth on Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Goodman, Clavia. Bitter Harvest: Laura Clay's Suffrage Work. Lexington, Ky.: Bur Press, 1946.

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Author: Goodman, Clavia.

Title: Bitter Harvest: Laura Clay's Suffrage Work.

Publication: Lexington, Ky.: Bur Press, 1946.  Available online courtesy of the Lexington Public Library.

This limited edition biography of Laura Clay (1849-1941) focuses on her work with the women's suffrage movement. Sophonisba P. Breckinridge wrote an introduction for it. The book, third in the Kentucky Monograph Series, also contains some images of the Clay family.