Saving Stories: Lunch counter sit-in's - a part of Lexington's 250 year history

Saving Stories
20/02/2025 5 min

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Lexington is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year, and Saving Stories is shining the spotlight today on lifelong educator and activist Audrey Grievous. In this 1985 UK Nunn Center oral history interview Grevious talks about her involvement in demonstrations and lunch counter sit-in's in downtown Lexington in the early 1960's.

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