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Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation’s board.
Clarksville native to give HCC Women’s History Month lecture
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Candy Johnson is president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Chattanooga.
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Woman of the Year nominations being accepted through Friday
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The Fannie Bronson Postell Woman of the Year Award will be presented during a virtual celebration of Women's History Month.
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King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech remains one of America’s most iconic messages
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King, who is remembered today on the national holiday honoring him, gave the speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to more than 200,000 civil rights demonstrators.
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Kentucky historian set for next History on Tap
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Stuart Sanders will present on his book, "Murder on the Ohio Belle," for the Jan. 28 virtual program.
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HCC hosting virtual meeting Tuesday with focus on religious icons in early Soviet messaging
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A history professor for MIT will help lead the presentation, along with HCC Assistant Professor John Davis.
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Ceremony set to install county’s first historical marker to a woman
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The marker will recognize Mary Edmunds Bronaugh, who was among Kentucky's earliest female lawyers when she passed the bar in 1915.
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Museum’s October events including recounting of Bell Witch story, spooky cemetery stroll
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Other events include a spooky stroll through a local cemetery and movie night at the museum.
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Jeff Taylor to give HCC’s Constitution Day lecture Thursday
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The lecture, at noon Thursday, will be available to the public through a video online.
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Flemish Renaissance building on Ninth Street originally housed the city’s telephone and telegraph office
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During the Dec. 7, 1907, Night Rider raid on Hopkinsville, gunmen took control of the telephone and telegraph office in this building to prevent anyone from signaling for help.
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Christian County’s historical markers tell stories of the past
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The local markers, which are among 2,400 installed statewide by the Kentucky Historical Society, offer lessons in local history.
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Hopkinsville marchers commemorate the American centennial of women’s suffrage
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"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." — The 19th Amendment
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Charles Meacham’s History of Christian County illustrates value of minutiae
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One historical tidbit woven into Charles Mayfield Meacham's History of Christian County was an ordinance passed in 1906 prohibiting cows from running at large.
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