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The “Day Law” is amended to permit individual institutions to enrol Black students seeking to undertake courses not otherwise available at Kentucky State College. Among several other colleges, Berea College opts to admit Black students.

The Army of the Ohio launches the Knoxville Campaign from Camp Nelson.

The Civil War Sesquicentennial and Civil Rights 50th Anniversary bring about Camp Nelson and Archaeological District’s designation as a National Historic Landmark.

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.

The Colored Soldiers Monument at Green Hill Cemetery is one of 61 different monuments related to Kentucky’s Civil War history to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Nicholasville Confederate Memorial is another.

The federal government appropriate 8 acres of land for use as a cemetery for Union soldiers: Camp Nelson National Cemetery is established.

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.

The First Convention of Colored Men in Kentucky is held in Lexington. Delegates assert that “the gallant heroic behavior of the Colored Soldiers of the American Army” during the war affirms their status as part and parcel of the “Great American Body Politic.”

the Freedman’s Bureau is withdrawn from Kentucky.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

The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act is signed into law by President Joe Biden.

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