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This digital exhibit introduces visitors to a pivotal moment in U.S. and Kentucky history that is often neglected in textbooks that cover the mid-20th century cold war and civil rights eras. Step back in time and learn how one African American family's simple desire for a new home in the suburbs wreaked dynamite and destruction, putting the southern border city of Louisville, Kentucky, at the epicenter of a hysterical "Red Scare" in the 1950s.