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Camp Nelson Restoration and Preservation Foundation is created to assist preservation efforts (local and regional citizens, some descendants of CANE soldiers, Black and white

Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan leads a lengthy raid through Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia in an attempt to draw Union troops from the Vicksburg and Gettysburg campaign fronts. Many of his men hailed from Jessamine County and the Bluegrass region.

Confederate victory at the Battle of Richmond, which led to their brief occupation of the capital at Frankfort.

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.

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.

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.

First major celebration of July 4th by Kentucky’s African American community at Camp Nelson. Sgt William A. Warfield, of the 119th US Colored Infantry pronounced the event evidence of “an age of wonders”: “to see so many thousands, who a year ago were slaves, congregate in the heart of a slave State and celebrate the day sacred to the cause of freedom, ‘with none to molest or make afraid,’ was a grand spectacle. It was the first time we have ever been permitted to celebrate the Nation’s Day.”

Following a campaign led by Mae Street Kidd, Kentucky General Assembly ratifies the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, a century after they became law.

following a lengthy process of debate and legislative process in the aftermath of the Charleston shootings, the city of New Orleans removes four Confederate statues from its public spaces.

Following a successful suit brought against Jessamine County Board of Education by a group of African-American students in September 1962, which argued that the county’s school system remained segregated and Black educational facilities were inferior to those of white county schools, Black and white children attend public school together for the first time in Jessamine County history.

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