Russell, Louisville

[1] It was named for renowned African American educator and Bloomfield, Kentucky native, Harvey Clarence Russell Sr.[2][3] Its boundaries are West Market Street, 9th Street, West Broadway and I-264.

By the 1940s Russell had become "Louisville's Harlem" as African American theaters, restaurants, and night clubs lined area streets.

[1] However, in the years following World War II many of the middle class blacks left for newly integrated neighborhoods on the south and east ends.

Urban renewal efforts in the 1960s had the area's business districts razed and many public housing units built.

The Western Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library, on 10th Street off Chestnut, opened in 1908.