Join us for our monthly community meeting! Come learn how you can get involved with issues relating to race and equality in the Tri-county area. This month’s meeting will focus on transfer of leadership and moving into the new year, so come join us as we decide where to go in the coming months!

Join us for our monthly community meeting! Come learn how you can get involved with issues relating to race and equality in the Tri-county area. Our event commemorating 1919 was a huge success, but now we are looking ahead to the future.

One hundred years ago over 200 African Americans were forcibly removed from the city of Corbin. Join us for a historical remembrance of the events of 1919, recognizing the centennial of this episode in our town’s past. Come experience the exhibit “October 30th, 1919,” and see first-hand accounts of this important historical event and a special installation honoring those that were forced to leave our city. The exhibit will remain up through the end of the week. Prior to the exhibit opening there will be a vespers service and remembrance from 6-6:30 pm at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 701 E Engineer St.

St. John’s Episcopal Church will be hosting a vespers service recognizing 100 years after the race riot that occurred in downtown Corbin. The service will be followed by a reception and historical exhibit at 2nd and Main.

As part of the "Appalachian Forum" series, the UK Appalachian Center will host a film screening and discussion with filmmaker, William Isom, Director of the "Black in Appalachia" project. Isom will be screening "Knoxville's Red Summer: Riot of 1919" on Monday, October 28, 2019 at 5:00 pm. The screening will be held at the William T. Young Library UKAA Auditorium. There will be a reception open to all UK students, faculty, staff and open to the community with free food to follow the event at the UK Appalachian Center - 624 Maxwelton Court.

The Corbin Public Library is sponsoring a ghost tour of downtown, with trolley and walking tours of historic sites. In the library, there will also be a special installment of historical documents from the 1919 race riot court case on display, compiled by the Sunup Initiative.

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Join us for the Corbin City Commission meeting. There will be a reading of the proclamation recognizing the events of 1919 and declaring the week of October 26 as the “Week of Diversity” in Corbin.

There is lots to discuss about our commemoration event! Please come and join us for an extra meeting directly focused on discussing and planning the event coming in October. Same time and place as usual!

Join us for our monthly community meeting! Come learn how you can get involved with issues relating to race and equality in the Tri-county area. As we get closer to the centennial of the Corbin race riot, we will be planning an event to raise awareness about this somewhat forgotten historical event.

Join us for our monthly community meeting! Come learn how you can get involved with issues relating to race and equality in the Tri-county area.

On August 1st, we will be screening the documentary “Banished: The Ethnic Cleansing of Blacks in America” by Marco Williams, followed by a community conversation.

We will be meeting to discuss potential plans and proposals to present to the Corbin School Board. This meeting will be focused on one of our pillars: to facilitate education and promote conversation about the 1919 Race Riot…

Join us for our monthly community meeting! Come learn how you can get involved with issues relating to race and equality in the Tri-county area.

Cara Cooper will be facilitating this meeting, helping attendees outline a backbone for the group’s future planning and decision-making.

The LCAAHC is beginning the “African Americans in the Tri-County Area Oral History Project.” Join us for a community oral history training to learn how to conduct oral history interviews. Stipends are available for community members to conduct interviews. This training is sponsored by the Laurel County African American Heritage Center, the UK Nunn Center for Oral History, and the UK Appalachian Center.

African Americans in the Tri-County Area Oral History Project

This project seeks to explore, document, and share African American experiences in southeastern Kentucky, especially Knox, Laurel, and Whitley Counties. Oral history interviews will give insight into the lives and contributions of African Americans in the Tri-County area. A research team of the project co-directors, community researchers, and project consultants will work together through the Laurel County African American Heritage Center to conduct oral histories in order to highlight diverse voices in the community and broaden the narrative about the history of the area.

Join us for an evening of open conversation, and find out more about how you can get involved with our mission to promote racial justice in Corbin and beyond. This meeting will be held at the Corbin Middle School Library. We are planning a series of events and educational opportunities in the coming weeks and would love for you to be involved.

Check out our website at: https://www.corbinracialjustice.com/

Email: CorbinRacialJusticeInitiative@gmail.com with any questions.

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