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African Americans were not wanted as employees in the Kentucky Cigar Industry. By 1920, neighboring state, Indiana, had taken full advantage of the situation and hired 42% of its African American cigar and tobacco employees from Kentucky. For a brief period, 1920-1930, African American women were the majority of the employees from Kentucky working in the Indiana cigar factories.
“African Americans, in and from Kentucky, in the Cigar Industry, 1860-1940,” Notable Kentucky African Americans Database.
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2-21-2019
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2005av011 : [Unidentified African American female], Sallie Price family papers, 1860-1950, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
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