The oft quoted saying that history is written by the victors is sometimes attributed to Winston Churchill and sometimes to Machiavelli. It can be disputed and is losing its claim to accuracy in this post-colonial world in which increasingly all lives and voices, particularly black, brown and indigenous lives matter. Each week the Kentucky Faith and Public History Education Project features a famous Kentucky Christian on our Facebook page. We are intentionally researching and then portraying men and women from each race and ethnicity that has impacted the history of Kentucky with their lives who gave clear credit to their Christian faith for their achievements. It is significantly more difficult to find written records of Kentucky women than men. It is most difficult to find written records of Kentucky’s African American women. Effie Waller Smith is one such woman. Her story and her perspective on the early events of the twentieth century are woven through her poems. They are writ...