As Black History Month continues, local stories on people of color continue to be collected and shared.
Tom Bartholomew is the Director of the Knox County Black History Preservation Project and he’s has learned that the more you delve into subject, the deeper that history goes…
Cap Embry was a well known baseball player and umpire from Vincennes who played and officiated games all over southern Indiana in the early 1900’s.
He died in 1964 and is buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Vincennes.
His decedents are still here.
But that may have stayed unknown until this project.
Bernetta Morris was going through her grandmother’s photos to contribute to the project and made the discovery…
Coming up on Thursday, February 22, The Black History Preservation Project, Vincennes University Legacy Club and VU Gallery of Art and Knox County Public Library are sponsoring an event at the Shircliff Gallery of Art.
The Harvest of Black History of Knox County starts at 6-pm.
Long-time residents of Knox County and those who have ventured out and returned will share family and individual photos and stories of the black experience from the early 1900s through the turn of the century.
It’s free and open to the public.
Also, you can find out more about Black History Month and the local preservation project on this week’s episode of First City Focus.
Watch on demand on VincennesPBS.org.
