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Rev. Louis Coleman worked his entire life for social justice, progress, and equal opportunity for African Americans. Mattie Jones, one of Coleman's longtime colleagues, discusses the type of work Coleman started in Louisville

Cate Fosl discusses the "tenacity" of Anne Braden and the work she contributed to the Civil Rights Movement and her work for social justice

Lyman Johnson remembers how he came to Louisville through the recommendation of his sister

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.

Donald Lassere, President and CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center, discusses the role Muhammad Ali played during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the Center's goals and mission for racial equality into the 21st century.

Utility lines crisscross over the trolley tracks on Johnson Street in front of the Bourbon Stock Yards. Utility poles run down the sidewalk along a wooden privacy fence. Past the stockyards is a building advertising "F. Burke[?] Cafe & Restaurant."

Interior view of barn, sheep pens.

Intersection of 4th Street and Walnut Street, now Muhammad Ali Boulevard. The Seelbach Hotel is at the southwest corner with the Kentucky Hotel further west. Crowds of people cross the street. Title supplied by cataloger.