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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…

Lattimore Cole discusses his late father, I. Willis Cole, and his paper, The Louisville Defender. The Defender had a close relationship with the Lincoln Insurance Company, which the elder Cole was on the Board.

Louisville newspaperman and political activist William Ealy discusses A.D. Porter's early role in the Lincoln Party and how that party nominated Porter to run for mayor.

John and Murray Atkins Walls talk about early efforts to integrate the Louisville Free Public Library. In this clip, Murray tells of an event in December 1941 where demonstrators were permitted enter the library.

Crescent Hill Methodist Church at Peterson Avenue and Payne Street in Louisville, Kentucky, a simple A-frame building shaded by tall trees. The Reverend B. C. Hodge was its pastor.

1603 S. Second Street
Date: 1917

Central Park is located in Old Louisville and bordered by Fourth Street and Sixth Street to the east and west and Park Avenue and Magnolia Avenue to the north and south.

1118 South Second Street
Date: 1936