Series Information

Julian Bond #101
Chairman of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Bond worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and served in the Georgia House of Representatives before being ejected for his stand against the Vietnam War. He has family roots in Kentucky.

• KETKY Tuesday, November 17 at 1:00 am EST

Gov. Edward Breathitt #102
As governor of Kentucky in the mid-1960s, Breathitt worked for passage of a state law guaranteeing equal rights in the area of public accommodations. Because of his activism among his fellow governors, President Lyndon Johnson appointed him to a special commission formed to monitor compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• KETKY Tuesday, November 17 at 2:00 am EST

Sen. Georgia Davis Powers #103
Powers was the first African American elected to the Kentucky Senate. First elected in 1968, she served for 21 years and championed bills prohibiting discrimination by race, sex, and age. Previously, she had helped organize the 1964 civil rights March on Frankfort.

• KETKY Tuesday, November 17 at 3:00 am EST

John Jay Johnson #104
Johnson began his civil rights activism as a teenager, as the youngest president of any Kentucky chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He now serves on the national NAACP staff.

• KETKY Tuesday, November 17 at 4:00 am EST

Mervin Aubespin #105
The first African-American news artist hired by the Louisville Courier-Journal, Aubespin got a baptism by fire as a reporter during two days of rioting in Louisville in 1968. He has built a national reputation as an expert on racism and the media and is president of the National Association of Black Journalists.

• KETKY Wednesday, November 18 at 1:00 am EST

P.G. Peeples #106
Peeples attended the University of Kentucky as one of only about 50 black students, then went to work for the Lexington chapter of the National Urban League. He was soon named director of the chapter, a position he still holds.

• KETKY Wednesday, November 18 at 2:00 am EST

Abby Marlatt #107
While teaching at the University of Kentucky in the 1960s, Marlatt helped organize students and train them in the principles of nonviolent protest, joining them at sit-ins and other actions that led to the desegregation of many public facilities in Lexington.

• KETKY Wednesday, November 18 at 3:00 am EST

J. Blaine Hudson #108
Louisville native Hudson was a student activist at the University of Louisville, demonstrating on behalf of greater educational opportunities for African-American students. He is now a professor and chair of Pan-African Studies at U of L.

• KETKY Wednesday, November 18 at 4:00 am EST

James Howard #109
At age 13, Howard and several other black students drew national attention for their efforts to integrate the schools in the Western Kentucky town of Sturgis.

• KETKY Tuesday, November 24 at 1:30 am EST

Jennie and Alice Wilson #110
Jennie Wilson was born in Mayfield in 1900 to parents who had been slaves. Alice was one of 10 African-American students who decided to enroll at Mayfield High School shortly after the Brown v. Board of Education decision declared "separate but equal" schools unconstitutional.

• KETKY Tuesday, November 24 at 2:05 am EST

Raoul Cunningham #111 [TV-PG]
As a teenager, Cunningham was one of the student leaders who organized protests at segregated downtown Louisville theaters, lunch counters, restaurants, and businesses, including the "Nothing New for Easter" boycott of stores that would not allow African-American customers to try on clothes.

• KETKY Tuesday, November 24 at 3:02 am EST

Audrey Grevious #112 [TV-PG]
Grevious served as president of the Lexington chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the 1960s, working with other local civil rights leaders for peaceful integration of businesses.

• KETKY Tuesday, November 24 at 4:00 am EST