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603 Moulton Street, Hickman, KY 42050, USA
603 Kentucky 94 Hickman Kentucky 42050 US
(270) 236-2423(270) 236-2423

Listed on the National Registry of Historic Places since 1979. The church, built by slaves in 1890, became Kentucky’s first black history museum in 1992. Being known as the first black church of Hickman, Kentucky, was organized in 1867 by a group of newly freed slaves, with leader and organizer Warren Thomas. Rufus Atwood, President of Kentucky State University for 38 years, attended church and school here. Rufus Atwood was a WWI Bronze Star hero for his actions in France in 1918. Atwood would later become President of Kentucky State University for 33 years. He is noted as one of Kentucky’s most famous African-American citizens for his work in equal education for African-American students in a time of deep segregation. Atwood served as President during the terms of 8 Kentucky Governors and once visited with President Harry Truman at the White House to plead his case for equal education. He was born in Hickman and is buried in Frankfort, KY after his passing in 1983 at the age of 86. He was the subject of a book written on his life, called “A Black Educator in the Segregated South”.

County Location
Fulton County, KY