King Records holds an important place in the Cincinnati and American recording industry. Located in Evanston, Ohio, from the 1940s through the 1960s, King made important contributions to Cincinnati’s cultural and civil rights history. Historian Christine Anderson, professor at Xavier University, will share the history of King Records, well-known and not-so-well-known King songs, and place them in their Cincinnati context.

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Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities