During a recent program at The Crusty Pig restaurant, which stands today where Hotel Latham did a century ago, Alissa Keller filled in many details about the life of this grand Hopkinsville landmark.
On July 29, 1931, a crowd estimated at 10,000 to 12,000 people packed downtown for a chance at cash prizes and for special deals local merchants offered.
The Human Rights Commission will present awards during an Aug. 2 event to community members "whose service, leadership, faith, and dedication have made a lasting impact on the Hopkinsville-Christian County."
The late Julia Henry, a popular Hopkinsville radio personality in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, was among several notables featured in a celebration of the museum's 50th birthday.
Freedom was not just confined to physical enslavement, but mental enslavement as well, bound in the laws that barred enslaved people from receiving an education in Southern states, writes scholar Rodney Coates.
While no written record confirms the flag story, ample evidence survives to document the successful multigenerational flagmaking enterprise that Ross launched and then sustained with her daughter and granddaughters.
