Connections with Renee Shaw
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Georgia Davis Powers
A one-on-one conversation with former Kentucky legislator Georgia Davis Powers, the first black woman to be elected to the Kentucky Senate. Grandniece of a slave, Powers worked on various local, congressional, and gubernatorial campaigns; was instrumental in organizing the March on Frankfort in 1964; and worked to pass open housing and public accommodations measures in the 1960s. She also discusses her intimate relationship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in this interview, recorded before an audience at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville.
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