FEATURED EVENT

AAGGKY: Save the date: Journeying Thru Kentucky

Date: Saturday, July 19, 2025
Time:  10am to 3pm
Host:  AAGGKY
Sponsor:  Kentucky Historical Society
About:  Join us on a bus tour of places where free and enslaved people lived and labored in Kentucky. Some of the stops include Liberty Hall, Ward Hall, Waveland, Fayette County Courthouse, and Boonesborough.  Stay tuned for details!
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Membership is inclusive and open to all interested in researching, preserving, and sharing information about Kentucky’s African American generations.
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We host and/or promote events to educate diverse audiences on African American genealogical history in Kentucky.
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Our organization can connect you with researchers and genealogists for the 120 counties of KY and beyond, including breaking down brick walls, researching property or family histories, and creating custom family charts.
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Our mission is to fill the void created where the history of Black Kentuckians have been omitted or inadequately researched and recorded.
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``I too am of the hills, my folks have corn rowed tobacco, laid track, strip mined, worshipped and whiskied from Harlan to Maysville, old Dunbar to Central...We put the heat in the hot brown and gave it color. Indeed some of the bluegrass is black.``

– from Kentucke by Frank X Walker
Poet Laureate of Kentucky 2013 – 2015

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