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Newspaper clipping photo of taxi burning on south 28th Street during Parkland uprising.

A mounted policeman observes as a crowd awaits entry to a trolley car. The car is stopped next to a concrete island in the middle of Broadway. Another officer behind the trolley directs cars to wait. Across the street, the Heyburn building advertises…

A streetcar drives past buildings on Fourth Street at Liberty Street, Louisville, Kentucky. The streetcar bears the number 1083 and the designation "Park 3rd." The front of the bus has ads for Crab Orchard Kentucky Straight Bourbon "now 15 months…

Sherri Hamilton recounts the open housing struggle in Louisville and the role Rev. A.D. King played in Louisville.

A firsthand recollection of the old Walnut Street business district in Louisville, Ky.

Musician Robert Key tells how Paul Robeson is the only African American who was ever allowed to sing at the Pendennis Club. The Club was well known for its restrictive policy toward African Americans, which extended in many ways into its…

Louisville experienced several Open Housing protests, often led by Rev. A.D. King, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s younger brother. John Johnson talks about the efforts to integrate housing

UofL Women's and Gender Studies professor and Director of the Anne Braden Institute, Cate Fosl, contextualizes the role Louisville played in the Civil Rights Movement that is often overlooked by other southern cities

Lyman Johnson, a longtime teacher at Central High School, recounts the role Central played as Louisville's only high school for African American students

Former LMC professor Charles Parrish recounts his first faculty meeting after the merger with UofL and how, as the first African American professor, he would handle advising duties for African American students.