Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South: Louisville, Kentucky, 1945-1980

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Charles W. Anderson Jr. on the steps of the Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) Frank Stanley Sr., publisher of the Louisville Defender. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) Charles Eubank Tucker, bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and leader of the Kentucky Bureau for Negro Affairs. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) Mass arrests of open housing demonstrators, spring 1967. (Courtesy of the photographic archives, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) Mass arrests of open housing demonstrators, spring 1967. (Courtesy of the photographic archives, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) Andrew and Charlotte Wade and their daughter Rosemary in front of their home, which was damaged by vandals protesting the family’s move into an all-white subdivision in May 1954. (Courtesy of the Louisville CourierJournal .) Carl and Anne Braden with their children, Jim and Anita, in 1954. (Courtesy of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, University of Louisville.) Students enter Male High School on the first day of integration, September 1956. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) High school students lead a sit-in in front of the Blue Boar Cafeteria in downtown Louisville, spring 1961. (Courtesy of the photographic archives, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) (Above) Louisville civil rights leaders, 1963. From left: unidentified, Garland Offutt, Lyman Johnson, James Crumlin, and Frederick Sampson. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) (Below) Frank Stanley Jr. addresses the march on Frankfort, 1964. (Courtesy of the James N. Keen Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) Open housing advocates march through a residential neighborhood, spring 1967. (Courtesy of the photographic archives, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) Mass arrests of open housing demonstrators, spring 1967. (Courtesy of the photographic archives, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) Leaders of black militant organizations at a Black Student Union meeting at the University of Louisville, 1969. From left: Ben Baker, Sterling Neal Jr., and Steve Stevenson. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) West End Community Council workshop, summer 1969. (Courtesy of Fred Hicks.) Black Workers’ Coalition members picket outside McCrory Restaurant, 1973. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) Louisville Welfare Rights Organization demonstration, 1968. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) The Unity Slate, 1969. Standing, from left: Morris F. X. Jeff, Raoul Cunningham, and Darryl T. Owens. Sitting, from left: Irv Moxley, Neville Tucker, and D. Edward Turner. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) The Reverend W. J. Hodge serving as president of the Louisville Board of Aldermen, 1978. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) African Liberation Day march, 1976. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) Antibusing demonstration, circa 1975–1976. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) Probusing and anti-Klan demonstration, circa 1975–1976. (Courtesy of the Louisville Defender Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville.) ...