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Event: Dedication of the Confederate Memorial at Nicholasville, KY, on Jessamine County Courthouse lawn. Fundraising and planning for the monument were led by former Confederate soldier and Nicholasville resident Jefferson Oxley.

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Event: Supreme Court issues the Plessy v. Ferguson decision and advances the “separate but equal” doctrine. The decision rules that racial segregation laws are not unconstitutional provided that facilities for both races are of equal quality.

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Event: The Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association is formed in Louisville, KY with the aim of establishing the first monument to the Union men of Kentucky. Aside from a marker dedicated in Cave Hill Cemetery in 1914, no such public monument was ever realized. In 1897, the Association publishes The Union Regiments of Kentucky as “a monument to the soldiers” that may help to progress “a stately shaft of granite as a further memorial.” The account omits detailed mention of any USCT regiments, arguing that, since such regiments “belonged directly to the United States government” and “were never in or connected with the Kentucky regiments, an account of them in no way belongs to this work.”

View the items in Event: The Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association is formed in Louisville, KY with the aim of establishing the first monument to the Union men of Kentucky. Aside from a marker dedicated in Cave Hill Cemetery in 1914, no such public monument was ever realized. In 1897, the Association publishes The Union Regiments of Kentucky as “a monument to the soldiers” that may help to progress “a stately shaft of granite as a further memorial.” The account omits detailed mention of any USCT regiments, arguing that, since such regiments “belonged directly to the United States government” and “were never in or connected with the Kentucky regiments, an account of them in no way belongs to this work.”

Event: Jessamine County’s Black leaders meet at the Nicholasville A.M.E. Church to elect a committee of preachers, teachers, and entrepreneurs capable of writing a resolution to oppose the state’s “Jim Crow Car Bill.”

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Event: A group of Confederate veterans hold their first meeting about the erection of the Jessamine County Confederate statue at a drugstore on Main Street, Nicholasville.

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Event: Following the Kentucky State Colored Convention, held in Frankfort, delegates submit a document to the US Senate challenging the rise of racial violence in the state, pointing to “organized bands of desperate and lawless men, mainly composed of soldiers of the late rebel armies, armed, disciplined, and disguised” as the perpetrators.

View the items in Event: Following the Kentucky State Colored Convention, held in Frankfort, delegates submit a document to the US Senate challenging the rise of racial violence in the state, pointing to “organized bands of desperate and lawless men, mainly composed of soldiers of the late rebel armies, armed, disciplined, and disguised” as the perpetrators.

Event: Congregants of the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church in Louisville, KY, lead an unprecedented protest against racial discrimination, with a focus on the segregation of streetcars.

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Event: the Freedman’s Bureau is withdrawn from Kentucky. In turn, local and state authorities withdraw their protections for Black citizens.

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Event: 125th US Colored Infantry are mustered out of service, and the last USCT regiment to be discharged.

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Event: Congress authorizes the organization of permanent, all-Black Regular Army regiments for the first time. The units include former USCT veterans from Camp Nelson, who enlisted in the Regular Army, becoming the first Buffalo Soldiers.

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