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Event: Louisville, KY, attorney, civil rights leader and Republican candidate Charles W. Anderson, Jr., is the first African American to be elected to the Kentucky legislature. He serves until 1946, and works to pass legislation equalizing teachers’ pay regardless of skin color; outlawing public hanging in Kentucky; and providing state aid for African Americans seeking degrees in higher education out-of-state due to Kentucky’s segregation laws.

View the items in Event: Louisville, KY, attorney, civil rights leader and Republican candidate Charles W. Anderson, Jr., is the first African American to be elected to the Kentucky legislature. He serves until 1946, and works to pass legislation equalizing teachers’ pay regardless of skin color; outlawing public hanging in Kentucky; and providing state aid for African Americans seeking degrees in higher education out-of-state due to Kentucky’s segregation laws.

Event: The Colored Soldiers Monument (also known as the African American Soldiers Monument) is dedicated in Frankfort’s Green Hill Cemetery by the George M. Monroe Chapter 8, Kentucky Colored Corps, a division of the Women’s Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic. The monument honors 142 Black men from central Kentucky who mustered into the Federal army at Camp Nelson and gave their lives for the Union cause.

View the items in Event: The Colored Soldiers Monument (also known as the African American Soldiers Monument) is dedicated in Frankfort’s Green Hill Cemetery by the George M. Monroe Chapter 8, Kentucky Colored Corps, a division of the Women’s Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic. The monument honors 142 Black men from central Kentucky who mustered into the Federal army at Camp Nelson and gave their lives for the Union cause.

Event: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founds a branch in Louisville, KY to mobilize protests against lynching and violence against African Americans, and to challenge new laws furthering segregation.

View the items in Event: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founds a branch in Louisville, KY to mobilize protests against lynching and violence against African Americans, and to challenge new laws furthering segregation.

Event: The Fee Memorial Church is built and dedicated by the African American congregation established by Fee at Camp Nelson, and which continued within the Ariel/Hall community. The Church is in regular use until the congregation disbands in the 1990s.

View the items in Event: The Fee Memorial Church is built and dedicated by the African American congregation established by Fee at Camp Nelson, and which continued within the Ariel/Hall community. The Church is in regular use until the congregation disbands in the 1990s.

Event: The “Day Law,” a bill introduced by Rep. Carl Day of Breathitt County, KY, to “prohibit white and colored persons from attending the same school” comes into effect in Kentucky. Its prime target is the integrated student population of Berea College.

View the items in Event: The “Day Law,” a bill introduced by Rep. Carl Day of Breathitt County, KY, to “prohibit white and colored persons from attending the same school” comes into effect in Kentucky. Its prime target is the integrated student population of Berea College.

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.

View the items in 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.

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.

View the items in 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.

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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