Human Relations Week

The 2009 Hal & Bettye Thurmond Award winner will be honored at the Mayor’s Unity Breakfast on Wednesday, October 21 at 7:00 a.m. at First United Methodist Church located at 1305 South Main Street. To purchase tickets, please call (270) 890-0200. If you know someone in the Hopkinsville-Christian County area who’s making a difference to improve the community through his/her dedication to human relations, please nominate them for the Hal & Bettye Thurmond Award presented by the Hopkinsville Human Relations Commission. Nominations, along with a brief bio of explanation, must be received by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, October 5, 2009, by email to bstandard@hopkinsvilleky.us, by fax to (270) 885-0018, or by mail to Hopkinsville Human Relations Commission at 101 North Main Street, Hopkinsville, KY 42240. Hal & Bettye Thurmond Award Selected by the Human Relations Commission, this award is named for Hal Thurmond and his wife Bettye whose work to integrate housing, lunch counters and public schools and to improve race relations in Christian County in the 1950s and 1960s earned them a posthumous induction into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame in the fall of 2006. Award recipients exhibit a similar longtime commitment to building race relations in our area.

2009 MED Week Registration Form

 

2009 MED Week Press Kit

 

Hal & Bettye Thurmond Award Winners

Past winners