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Helen Fisher Frye (June 24, 1918 – November 26, 2014) was an American educator and churchwoman who was a local leader for civil rights in her hometown of Danville, Kentucky, serving as the president of the Danville chapter of the NAACP.
Georgia Davis Powers, first African American Kentucky senator, (1923–2016) Moneta Sleet Jr., first African American Pulitzer Prize winner in photography (1926–1996) [9] Allen Allensworth, chaplain (1842–1914) bell hooks, author, academic, essayist, activist, born in Kentucky and came back to her land (1952–2021).
Danville is a home rule-class city [6] and the county seat of Boyle County, Kentucky, United States. [7] The population was 17,236 at the 2020 census. [8] Danville is the principal city of the Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of the Boyle and Lincoln counties.
5 miles (8.0 km) east of Danville off Kentucky Route 52: Danville: 42: Harrodsburg Pike Rural Historic District: December 21, 1998 : Western side of U.S. Route 127, 3.25 miles (5.23 km) south of the county line
Among groups of African-American recruits, the largest arrived between June and October 1864, with 322 men enlisting on a single day on July 25. [18] In May, 1864, the first large group arrived, 250 recruits from Danville, a distance of 16 miles. These groups and others en route to Camp Nelson were subject to harassment and violence.
Constitution Square Historic Site is a 3-acre (0.012 km 2) park and open-air museum in Danville, Kentucky.From 1937 to 2012, it was a part of the Kentucky state park system and operated by the Kentucky Department of Parks.
The first known African American newspapers to serve Kentucky were the Colored Citizen, which was briefly published in Louisville in 1866, and the Colored Kentuckian, launched in 1867. [ 2 ] African American newspapers serving Kentucky today include the Louisville Defender , the Key Newsjournal of Lexington, and the Northern Kentucky Herald ...
Emancipated slave of Revolutionary War veteran Robert Craddock, founder of first school in Danville for African-American children [1] Alfred Ryors: 1812–1858: President of Indiana University, Ohio University; professor at Centre College Hugh L. Scott: 1853–1934: Superintendent of West Point, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in World War I ...