On a cold blustery day in March of 1964 an estimated 10,000 people came to the State Capitol in Frankfort to demonstrate for a public accommodations bill which had been filed in the Kentucky General Assembly.
Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries shares interviews from Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Famer Georgia Davis Powers, the first person of color and first woman elected to the state senate:
https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/1148
and Kentucky Governor Ned Breathitt (1963-1967.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Breathitt
Listeners will get to hear two very different perspectives on the rally that was led by the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior, Louisville publisher and activist Frank Stanley Junior, former MLB great Jackie Robinson and others.
Hear the entire interview with Georgia Davis Powers at the link below:
https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt78gt5ff561
Hear the entire interview with Governor Ned Breathitt below:
