Integrated

"The Lincoln Institute, to many Kentuckians and particularly to many African American Kentuckians, has extra special meaning because it was an extraordinary place for students. The Lincoln Institute not only provided opportunities for individuals to grow academically, mentally, and personally; it also offered opportunities for athletic achievements. If you are looking for some exciting reading with a historical basis on a school that touched the lives of many Kentuckians, then Integrated is for you."—Raymond M. Burse, former president of Kentucky State University

"Integrated is more than the story of the Lincoln Institute basketball teams' triumphs and tragedies after the 1954 and 1955 Supreme Court decisions. It is more than the story of the survival of Lincoln Institute from 1912-1966, especially the last thirty-one years under the leadership of Dr. Whitney Young, Sr. It is more than the story of courageous black and white Americans using athletics to pave the way for the desegregation of the public schools in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is more than the story of an all-Black boarding high school that came into existence because of segregation and closed its doors because of desegregation. It is more than "A Whistle from mid-court" in 1960 that Lincolnities still talk about. It is much more! It is a story of hope, courage, perseverance and dignity."—Andrew Baskin, Chair and Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies, Berea College

"In this book, James Miller explores an overlooked topic in America's struggle for equality. He charts the impact of the civil rights movement in Kentucky as shown through the lens of the Lincoln Institute, an all-black high school famed for both its academic and athletic prowess. Miller gives readers not only a comprehensive story of the school from its inception to its ultimate unraveling in the face of integration, but also a basketball story, replete with the stories of stars in the making and the administrators who helped along the way."—Northern Kentucky Heritage

"Miller's seminal narrative of Kentucky's Lincoln Institute in Shelby County fills a void in African American, Kentucky, education, and sports history. [A] tribute to African Americans in the age of racial segregation during the transition to integration."—Ohio Valley History

"An excellent piece of Kentucky history."—Kentucky Libraries

"Integrated: the Lincoln Institute, Basketball and a Vanished Tradition is a welcome tribute to African-American schools in Kentucky. Through the prism of players, coaches and teachers, Jim Miller manages to recreate the world of segregated sports teams that not only rivaled but often times surpassed the best of white teams. This is a look at sports at the time of court-ordered desegregation. What happened next included the dismantling of existing programs and the passage of an era."—Mervin Aubespin, coauthor of Two Centuries of Black Louisville