10 Post: Dr. Maurice Rabb and an ACLU Board Meeting in his Basement

Suzy Post recalls an ACLU board meeting in the basement of Dr. Maurice Rabb’s house during Open Housing Campaign in which protesters just released from jail arrived at the house.

Suzy Post was born in 1933 and is a Civil Rights Activist living in Louisville, Kentucky. She served as President of what is now the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky and sat on the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

This interview took place on April 29, 2013 as part of the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries

To view the entire interview visit:

https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt74qr4nnx2t

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