Kidd introduced a bill to make Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday an official state holiday.

 

Georgia Davis Powers and Representative Hughes McGill to introduce the Kentucky Fair Housing Act to the Kentucky General Assembly. Kidd's bill passed in 1968, making Kentucky the first Southern state to enact such laws on its own.

 

Passage of the “Representative Mae Street Kidd Bill” created the Kentucky Housing Corporation in the early 1970s.

 

Kidd always told interviewers her proudest accomplishment in the General Assembly was her campaign to pass three long-neglected amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Kentucky had never ratified the 13th Amendment, which ended slavery; the 14th, which extended full citizenship rights to African-Americans; or the 15th, which gave black men the right to vote.

 

In 1976, more than 100 years after they became law, Kentucky’s General Assembly finally corrected the historical oversight and unanimously ratified all three amendments.

 

- In 1948, Kidd organized the first Louisville Urban League Guild and served as President of the Lincoln Foundation.

 

-Two years later, at the dawn of a new civil rights era with federal laws barring racial discrimination in all forms, Kidd was invited by a number of Louisville Democrats to run for a seat in the House of Representatives in Kentucky General Assembly.