Watts reflects on Kentucky’s significant contribution to the Civil Rights Movement and speaks of the value of preserving this history of Kentucky’s Civil Rights activists.
Beverly Watts is the Executive Director of the Tennessee Commission on Human Rights. In her position as Director of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, she initiated the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame.
This interview took place on September 11, 2014 as part of the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History and University of Kentucky Libraries.
To view the entire interview visit:
https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7rbn9x3k7v
Interviewer: Betty Baye
Videographer: Joanna Hay