Black History in Covington, Kentucky, 1815-2025: Once Upon a Time in America

Black History in Covington Kentucky, 1815–2025, represents a cogent, longitudinal account of African American life over a period of more than 200 years in a riverside city located in Midwestern America. The city, which is situated at the point of the Ohio and Licking Rivers in the sprawling Ohio River Valley, has a rich and storied history extending from the pre–Civil War days to the present. That history includes the presence of African American families and black culture from the city’s inception.

The author employs a novelist’s approach to exposing black history in this Northern Kentucky city, while incorporating pertinent historical details and pictorial images that enhance the written descriptions contained in this volume. Covington’s black history is presented, not as a series of isolated factual events involving local black people, but as a coherent, comprehensive, conversation with the reader within the broader context of local and national history. This book includes abbreviated histories of black families, black schools, and black churches in Covington, as well as several indices (military, graduation, and cemetery records) with data on several people of African American descent who were early residents of the black community in Covington, Kentucky.

This novel account is a must read for those interested in local history. The story of African Americans in Covington, Kentucky, unfolds herein within the broader scope of concurrent historic events at the local and national levels.

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