Frank X. Walker presents How African American Resistance and Resilience in Kentucky won the Civil War

Margaret Garner, Lewis Hayden, Minister Gabriel Burdette, the fathers of Paul Lawrence Dunbar and General Charles Young, as well as the over 23,000 men who became USCT, exemplified the resilience epitomized by African American Kentuckians before, during and after the Civil War, validating Abraham Lincoln’s prescient statement that “I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky.” Please register to attend the event at BCPL or via Zoom. The event is a partnership between Boone County Public Library and the African American Genealogy Group of Kentucky and made possible by a grant from Kentucky Humanities.