These conversations are from the Nunn Center’s new partnership with the city of Frankfort and filmmaker Joanna Hay to document this pivotal moment in Kentucky Civil Rights history.
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Sylvia Jones Harris was the daughter of William Augustus Jones Sr., the longtime pastor of historic Pleasant Green Baptist Church in Lexington, KY, and a prominent civil rights leader in Central Kentucky. Harris attended the 1964 March on Frankfort as a teenager and rode one of four buses from her father's church.
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Sharyn Mitchell was a student at Berea College's Foundation School when she attended the 1964 March on Frankfort.
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Barbara Hudson of Harrodsburg attended the 1964 March on Frankfort as a youth and remembers getting into trouble the day after the rally because the principal refused to grant her an excused absence.
