The 1930s Hickman Redbirds

Back Row (L - R) George Hurt, Milford Caldwell, Wilson Hulin,
Luis Mikel, Chandler Blincoe, Floyd Green Jr., Ed Gaskins

Front Row (L - R) George McCormick, Lionel Wiley, Robert Forgey,
Hayes Allen, James P. Argo, Marvin Hodges, Archie Kemp. Bat Boy Billy Dotson

Elvis J. Stahr Jr.

Hickman's Stahr was the Secretary of the Army under President John F. Kennedy during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and Cuban missile crisis.  Stahr also was the President of the National Audubon Society along with serving as President of West Virginia University and the University of Indiana.  He was a Rhodes Scholar who is now buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Vice President of the United States, Alben Barkley, visited Hickman High School on November 6th, 1953. Barkley made a brief speech to the students in front of the school on Moscow Avenue. He was accompanied by his wife and Secret Service Agents.

Rufus B. Atwood

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 on Cedar St. 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".

Atwood, Martin Luther King Jr., and
Frank Stanley Sr. at the Kentucky State
commencement in 1957.

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