The next History on Tap — set for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, at Hopkinsville Brewing — will focus on desegregation in Hopkinsville.
Alissa Keller, executive director of the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County, will lead the program for Black History Month.
“Using contemporary newspapers and oral history interviews, this program focuses on the move to desegregate schools and public facilities here in the 1960s,” a news release states. “We hope to offer a bit of historic insight and to encourage conversations about this time in our history.”
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. She spent 30 years as a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition.
