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In Louisville on October 30, 1870, Fox got in a streetcar with his brother/ business partner Samuel and their employee, Horace Pearce. [2] They paid their fares and sat down in the white section of the car, in violation of local laws prohibiting black men from riding inside the trolley cars (black women were permitted to ride at the back of the car, but black men were usually only allowed to ...
Attesting to his belief in black education, in 1893 Cotter founded the Paul Laurence Dunbar School, named after the poet and friend Paul Laurence Dunbar. Cotter served as principal of this black high school until 1911, whereupon he took the position of principal at Samuel Coleridge-Taylor School and held the post until 1942.
View of Main Street, Louisville, in 1846. The history of Louisville, Kentucky spans nearly two-and-a-half centuries since its founding in the late 18th century. The geology of the Ohio River, with but a single series of rapids midway in its length from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers to its union with the Mississippi, made it inevitable that a town would grow on the site.
In 1976, Randy Butler became Louisville’s first Black starting quarterback. The 6-foot Georgia native was also the first Black starting quarterback during his senior year at Commerce High School.
Louisville's new police chief will be the first Black woman to lead the embattled department full-time, bringing fresh hope to a force under a federal consent decree after years of scrutiny ...
Pervis Ellison, basketball player; born in Savannah, Georgia; "Never Nervous Pervis" was the starting center for the University of Louisville for four years, including the 1986 national championship year; second freshman to be named the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Final Four; first overall pick in the 1989 NBA Draft by the Sacramento Kings
WHAT: Remembrance: Reading of the Names will honor the lives of 1,630 Black people buried in unmarked graves WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 24, 2 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Louis Cemetery, 1167 Barret Ave.
Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. [13] With the nearby Falls of the Ohio as the only major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site.