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A befitting tag for the first day of Black History Month. This building opened in 1873 as Central Colored School, an early landmark of publicly funded Black education in Kentucky. Central moved out in 1894, but education continued here for decades, and Simmons College added the building to its campus in 2022 as Ida B. Wells Hall. Wells has a Louisville connection too. Her 1896 anti-lynching speech here helped inspire the Woman’s Improvement Club, a local Black women’s civic and suffrage organization.