Attucks High School Archives

A local lawman’s place in Ky. history

by Jennifer P. Brown
January 16, 2022

Bill Dillard was Kentucky's first Black sheriff, elected twice in Christian County before he became caught up in an FBI drug investigation.

Hopkinsville native Ted Poston to be inducted into Ky. Writers Hall of Fame

by Jennifer P. Brown
January 14, 2022

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.

Hopkinsville Art Guild’s coronavirus project memorializes 7 lives with portraits

by Jennifer P. Brown
November 30, 2021

The portraits are an expression of the community's care for families who lost loved ones to the virus, said one of the painters who helped organize the project for the Hopkinsville Art Guild.

A man’s search for his grandfather’s legacy leads to Hopkinsville

by Jennifer P. Brown
February 8, 2021

Bill Falls had heard his grandfather was a good basketball coach. But until he came across a Hoptown Chronicle article, he didn't know that Coach William Falls of Attucks High School had been inducted posthumously into a hall of fame.

Hopkinsville AKA sisters celebrate Kamala Harris inauguration

by Jennifer P. Brown
January 20, 2021

In Hopkinsville and across the country, Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sisters celebrated Kamala Harris’ inauguration as vice president on Jan. 20, 2021.

Depression era physician built a swimming pool for black residents of Hopkinsville

by Jennifer P. Brown
June 11, 2020

Patterson Tilford Frazer Jr. was born on a tenant farm at Allensville in 1889. He earned his medical degree in Nashville and later practiced medicine in Hopkinsville, where he installed a swimming pool for black residents.

Civil rights attorney Louis McHenry’s teenage daughter Gail was a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention

by Jennifer P. Brown
February 28, 2020

Gail McHenry was 19 years old when she served as the youngest delegate at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Ebony magazine carried a three-page story about her that fall.

Philip C. Brooks Sr. built Hopkinsville’s only hospital for Black patients during segregation

by Jennifer P. Brown
February 20, 2020

Dr. Phillip C. Brooks Sr. was a graduate of Attucks High School. He built the hospital in his hometown during World War II.

Hopkinsville’s first public school opened in 1842

by Julia Hunter
October 31, 2019

The first public school in Hopkinsville operated from 1842 to 1844 out of a log cabin.

Ted Poston’s short stories grew from regaling friends of life in Hopkinsville

by Jennifer P. Brown
October 17, 2019

The collection features fictionalized accounts of Poston's childhood, growing up in the 1910s in segregated Hopkinsville. The author and his buddies play the heroes, often outwitting the white community, but also their black elders.

Ky. Basketball Hall of Fame inducts Attucks coach William Falls

by Jennifer P. Brown
August 4, 2019

Falls coached at Attucks High School from 1935-1967. His teams won state titles and advanced four time to a national tournament.

Can Attucks school be saved?

by Jennifer P. Brown
March 27, 2019

Despite a push starting in the early 1990s to renovate Attucks school, the building continues to decline. Can it be saved?