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George Floyd killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, MN. His death gives rise to worldwide protests against historic racism and police brutality, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Breonna Taylor shot and killed by armed police in her home, during a drugs investigation raid in Louisville, KY.

Camp Nelson is designated a National Monument by President Donald J. Trump under the Antiquities Act.

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.

Shooting of ten congregants at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a white supremacist. The shooter had previously posted photographs of himself with white supremacist emblems, including the Confederate flag, online. The event sparks national discussion about the place of Confederate monuments and symbolism in US public life.

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

Further intensive excavations by the University of Kentucky on sites of Camp Nelson refugee cottages and huts reveals rim lock fragments and keys, suggesting that residents actively worked to secure their possessions, while ink bottle and slate board fragments point to the presence of literate residents, or those involved in learning at the camp’s schoolhouse. Professor Stephen McBride argues that these finds “may reflect the transition from slavery to freedom at Camp Nelson.”

Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park is officially opened.

Camp Nelson is added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Another archaeological survey of Camp Nelson uncovers refugee encampment site between former locations of Bakery and commissary and QM warehouses.

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