Edward T. "Ned" Breathitt Jr., a Hopkinsville native and Kentucky's 51st governor, is remembered for helping win passage of the first civil rights bill in a Southern state.
In the middle of an 1886 blizzard that blanketed Hopkinsville and Christian County in snow, a photographer set up his camera to capture the moment — and provide us a peek into Hopkinsville' history. In the second installment of Hoptown Chronicle's new "Snapshots in Time" column, Alissa Keller brings the moment to life.
Vicki Crawford, director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection, shares five details of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life that stand out.
Recognized as the dean of Black journalists in America, Ted Poston covered major stories on civil rights, politics and Black culture as a staff writer at the New York Post from the mid-1930s until his retirement in 1972.
