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Louisville Defender Newspaper Building

1720 Dixie Hwy, Louisville, KY 40210

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Home of the Louisville Defender, an African American newspaper founded in 1933. For nine decades, the paper has chronicled Black Louisville from segregation through the Breonna Taylor protests.

Louisville Defender Newspaper Building

1720 Dixie Hwy, Louisville, KY 40210

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Year Built: 1933
Style: Commercial Vernacular
Period: Great Depression
Era: 1933

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