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The Sunup Initiative presented a free virtual film screening & discussion on Friday, October 30th, featuring Black in Appalachia's The Corbin Expulsion of 19...
 
The Sunup Initiative and the City of Corbin hosted a free Community Brunch on Sunday, January 19th, 2020, at 2nd & Main in Corbin.
 
On October 30, 1919, over 200 African Americans were forcibly removed from the city of Corbin. The Sunup Initiative organized a historical remembrance of the...
 
St. John's Episcopal Church hosted a vespers service recognizing 100 years after the race riot that occurred in downtown Corbin on October 30, 2019. The serv...
 
On October 21st, 2019, Mayor Suzie Razmus and the City Commission of Corbin publicly acknowledged the racial cleansing of 1919 and proclaimed the week of October 30th Diversity Week in order to celebrate the strides the community has made in the past 100 years on Diversity & Inclusion.
 

Newspaper Articles

Articles Gov Morrow Rejected Petitions File 177 (1921), Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives

“Mob Drives 200 Negroes out of Corbin.” The Courier Journal. November 1, 1919.

“Kentucky Mob Banishes Virtually All Blacks-One Is Reported Killed.” The New York Times. November 1, 1919.

“The Mob and What People Think About It.” Time Tribune Article. November 1919.

“Stabbed and Robbed on Way From Work.” The Mountain Advocate. November 7, 1919.

“27 Citizens of Corbin Indicted in Race Riot.” Times Tribune Article. February 12, 1920.

The Corbin Times. February 27, 1920.

“Sentenced 2 Years as Mob Leader.” The Courier Journal. September, 26 1920.

“City Rolls Up Carpet on the Klan’s Aims.” The Whitley Republican. May 1992.

City of Corbin Proclamation. The Times Tribune. 1992.

Oral Histories

Oral History interview with Lilian Butner by George C. Wright. January 30, 1987, Blacks in Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Case File for the Indictment of Steve Rogers

Testimonies Gov Morrow Rejected Petitions Box 5 File 177 (1921), Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives

IndictmentsWhitley Circuit Steve Rogers (1920), Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives

Rejected Petition Gov Morrow File 177 (1921), Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives

External Link to Gov Morrow Rejected Petitions File 177 (1921), Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives

External Link to Whitley County Circuit Court records (indictments, order book entries)

Transcribed Testimonies from Gov. Morrow Rejected Petitions File177 (1921), Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives