Kentucky marker to note 1954 racial attack

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State marker to note 1954 racial attack
Black family's house in Shively was bombed
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By SHERYL EDELEN
sedelen@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal



On Clyde Drive in Shively, children of different races play together and people get along well regardless of skin color.

The Shively area was much different a half century ago when Andrew and Charlotte Wade became the first African Americans to buy a ho
e there. They bought it with help from Carl and Anne Braden, a white couple.

Fifty years ago this Sunday, six weeks after the Wades moved to Clyde Drive
 
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