Untold Stories - Lexington and the Civil Rights Movement

UNTOLD STORIES: July 4, 2004  

Front-page news, back-page coverage
THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN LEXINGTON
CLARIFICATION: It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement. We regret the omission.
John Carroll, the editor of the Los Angeles Times, who edited this newspaper from 1979 to 1991, recently proposed a correction like the one above during a speech on journalism ethics. Today, as the nation celebrates its liberties and marks the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this report looks back at the hidden history of Lexington's civil rights struggle -- and how this newspaper covered it. Or failed to.
By Linda Blackford and Linda Minch / HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITERS
» The news was separate, but hardly equal
» He captured the images that papers ignored
» Civil rights timeline
» Merlene Davis | Past teaches us that freedom is for everyone
UNTOLD STORIES: Aug. 15, 2004  
A very long wait to be served
1960s' Saturday sit-ins at the Phoenix Hotel
This is the first in a series of stories based on readers' firsthand accounts of the civil rights movement, accounts the Herald-Leader has not covered until now.
* Commentary: Lexington erasing black heritage
By Linda B. Blackford / HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER

UNTOLD STORIES: Aug. 19, 2004  
Sit-in a source of pride and pain
The hidden history of civil rights in the Bluegrass
Sarah Rogers said nothing and tended to her cooking as her co-workers poured salt, pepper and hot coffee over a group of protesters that included her brother and her niece.
By Joseph Lord / HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER

UNTOLD STORIES: Aug. 22, 2004  
UNTOLD STORIES: The hidden history of civil rights in the Bluegrass
Her convictions nearly cost her her teaching job
Professor Abby Marlatt had never before been called to a one-on-one meeting in the University of Kentucky president's big, wood-paneled office.
* At the right place, at the right time
By Linda B. Blackford / HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER

UNTOLD STORIES: Sept. 5, 2004  
UNTOLD STORIES: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE BLUEGRASS
She led as a UK student, professor
On the warm, sunny day in September 1954 when she began her studies at the University of Kentucky, Doris Wilkinson watched her father drive away and felt something many freshmen have felt, before and since:
By Jenny Robertson / HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER

UNTOLD STORIES: Sept. 9, 2004  
Her essay won a prize, but she couldn't go to ceremony
Viola Davis Brown says setback made her tough, determined
The 15-year-old girl sat on the living room sofa in her best dress, her gloved hands tightly clasped, her eyes on the door. Any moment, a car was to come to take her to the Phoenix Hotel. There at a glittering banquet, she and other Fayette County high school students would pick up their awards in an essay contest on democracy in America.
By Linda B. Blackford / HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING  
AP, Washington Post: Paper Apologizes for Civil Rights Coverage
July 5, 2004
New York Times: 40 Years Later, Civil Rights Makes Page One
July 13, 2004

A story in Sunday’s Herald-Leader about how the old Lexington Herald and Lexington Leader provided scant coverage of the local civil-rights movement in the 1950s and ’60s has raised intriguing questions about Central Kentucky’s hidden history of civil rights struggles.
The courage, the confrontations, the setbacks and the victories that took place locally have never been fully explored in these pages.
We’d like to correct that now, with your help. If you have stories to tell of the civil-rights movement in and around Lexington, please contact us at (859)231-1633 or at untoldstories@herald-leader.com.
Please include your name and contact information, so a reporter can verify your story.

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