In this talk, Kelley Coures will discuss Evansville in the 1920s. He will explore the city’s social and psychological state during the post WW I period and how the Ku Klux Klan gained control of various aspects of life in Evansville during this period.

An Evansville native, Coures has been Executive Director of the city’s Department of Metro Development since 2014. Civically active in the community, Coures is the recipient of the Sadelle Berger Civil Rights Award, 2011; the Leadership Evansville Social Service Award, 2012; and the Evansville African American Museum Changemaker Award, 2021. He is the author of the upcoming book "OUT Evansville: the LGBTQ History of a River City" set for release in April of 2023 by Arcadia Publishing/History Press.

Coures graduated from the University of Southern Indiana where he studied history and economics.

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