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Saving Stories: Lunch counter sit-in's - a part of Lexington's 250 year history

By Alan Lytle
Published February 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM EST
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Lexington is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year, and Saving Stories is shining the spotlight today on lifelong educator and activist Audrey Grievous. In this 1985 UK Nunn Center oral history interview Grevious talks about her involvement in demonstrations and lunch counter sit-in's in downtown Lexington in the early 1960's.

Learn more about Audrey Grevious below:

https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/10

Access the Nunn Center’s full interview with Audrey Grevious online: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt77h41jkx52

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Alan Lytle
Alan Lytle has more than 25 years of experience as a Kentucky broadcaster. Over that span he has earned multiple awards for anchoring, writing and producing news & features for WUKY. He took home the Kentucky Broadcasters Association's Best Radio Anchor award in 2021.
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