Attucks High School

Stories about the former Attucks High School in Hopkinsville.

Men 2 Be acquired the shuttered structure from the Crispus Attucks Community Association last year.
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Falls led the Attucks High School basketball team to two state titles in the Kentucky High School Athletic League Championships and advanced four times to a national tournament for Black schools during segregation. 
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The final installment of our Black History Month series features Claybron Merriweather, a lawyer, painter and poet from Hopkinsville.
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Led by legendary coach William Falls, the Wolves of Attucks High School won the state championship for Black schools in 1947 and '57.
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Hoptown Chronicle's editor will join the book club discussion Aug. 23 at Hopkinsville Brewing to talk about journalist Ted Poston's stories.
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A 100-year-old photo of the Pennyroyal Fair in Hopkinsville shows a large gathering present for horse races and other events centered around agriculture.
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A photograph that ran on the front page of the Kentucky New Era on April 6, 1953, illuminates a joyful moment in Hopkinsville's history — but not a inclusive one.
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The tribute to the acclaimed author, and Hopkinsville native, who was born Gloria Jean Watkins, was attended by roughly 400 people Saturday at the Alhambra Theatre.
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In this week's Sunday Brew, editor Jennifer P. Brown reveals the answers to last week's word quiz and fills readers in on a project we've been working on with a local high school student.
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Hoptown Chronicle editor Jennifer P. Brown gives her thoughts on the name and mascot selected for the new, consolidated high school — and how the community could pay tribute to the past, present and future when it opens.
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The Attucks Science Club members, captured in a 1962 photograph, were part of a tightly knit community, where the motto was "Do or Die for Attucks High."
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The Pennyroyal Area Museum is home to several collections highlighting Hopkinsville's Black history.
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