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The Louisville Western Branch Library was officially opened on this day in 1908, one of the Carnegie Library Buildings. It was one of the first public libraries in the nation to serve and be fully operated by blacks.

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Levi Coffin was born on this day in 1798. A Quaker, abolitionist, farmer and a businessman, he active in the underground Railroad that shepherded former enslaved to safety. He earned the moniker ‘Father of the Underground Railroad’.