11 AND THEIR ONGOING SERSIE BRIDGING THE DIVIDE THE FRASER HISTORY MUSEUM TAKES A LOOK BACK INTO LOUISVILLE HISRYTO DURING A TURBULENT MOMENT IN 1968. WLKY STEFAN. DINGLE GIVES US A GLIMPSE AT THE GROUP THAT CAME TO BE KNOWN AS THE BLACK SIX. DOZENS GATHERED AT THE FRASER HISTOR MYUSEUM TUESDAY FOR A CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE RECKONINGND A RECONCILIATION THE PANEL FEATURED IMPORTANT FIGURES OF A GROUP THAT BECAME KNOWN AS THE BLACK SIX A POLICE STOP IN 1968 IN WEST LOUISVILLE. DLE TO OUTRAGE TO LOUISVILLE REBELLION AND PARKLAND AND THE ARREST OF ONE WANOM AND FIVE BLACK MEN INCLUDING SAM HAWKINS. HE REFLECTED ALL THESE YEARS LATER ON POLICE FALSELY CHARGING THE GROUP WITH CONSPIRACY CHGEARS RELATED TO THE REBELLION THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE STREET. WEST LOUISVILLE THAT HE MADE CLREA WAS FAR FROM A PLANNED RIOT BUT INSTEAD REACTION TO POLICE BRUTALITY AS WE DISMISSED. WE NOTICED THAT THERE WERE LIKE ABTOU 15 POLICE CARS AND EVERY ALLEY ON BETWEEN 20TH AND GREENWOOD AND ALL AT ONCE THIS POLICEAR C CHARGED UP INTO THE CROWD. AND GOT OUT OF THE CROWD AND AND TOLD EVERYBODY THAT THEY NEEDED TOET G OUT OF THE WAY DISMISSED GO WHATEVER IT IS AND FOLKSOT G ANGRY THAT ANGER ONLY BOILED OVER AFTER THAT COMMUNITY MEMBSER STARTED THROWING OBJECTS AT OFFICERS WOULD SET UP MAYHEM IN THE STREETS OF LOUISVILLE. REMEMBER, THIS IS IN 1968 IN ALREADY TURBULENT YEAR IN AMERICA THAT WITNESSED PROTEST AND RIGHTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AFTERHE T DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ALONG WITH A CONTINUED STRUG. FOR JUSTICE FOR BLACK AMERICANS. I WAS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE. BUT I DIDN’T PARTICIPATE OUT OF FEAR. BECAUSE I WAS BEING FELT LIKE I WAS BEING THREATENED. MY CAREER WAS BEEN THREATENED. SO THE CHILLING EFFECT OF EVERYTHING THAT WAS GOING ON. ,SO YEAH, I HAD A TENDENCY TO WITHDRAW. BUIT ATTENDED THE EVENTS THAT IMPACTED THEM BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY REALLY RESPONDED. TO MY PLATE A STORY THAT SOUSND EERILY SIMILAR TO THIS CITY’S LATEST SOCIAL UNREST OVER THE DEATH OF BRIANNA TAYLOR ANDT' ’S SHOWING UP FOR HER PLIGHT AT THE HANDS OF LOUISVILLE METRO PICOLE THAT IRONY BECAME THE FOCUS OF THIS ONGOING CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW HISTORY RELATES SO CLOSELY TO EVENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY TODAY WI TH LAW ENFORCEMENT BRUTALITY AND SKEPTICISM A DKAR STORY WITH SEEMINGLY NEVER-ENDING CHAPTERS AS HISTORY TRIES TO AVOID A REPEAT WHILERY TING TO BE THE BEST. TEACHER STEFAN DINGLE WLKY NEWS BLACK SIX WERE PROSECUTED AND WOULD STAND TRIAL AND CONSPIRACY CHARGES RELAT