Editing Shively, Kentucky (section)

===20th century===
A streetcar line was extended to the area in 1904.

Eight [[bourbon whiskey|whiskey]] distilleries opened nearby after the end of [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]]. When Louisville tried to annex and tax them during the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]], the distillers talked the residents of Shively into incorporating separately (finalized May 23, 1938) and annexing their district instead. Their $20-million revenue stream left the small city well funded.

During the 1950s, it became the state's fastest-growing city as [[white flight]] and [[suburbanization]] reached Louisville.

The area was long ''[[de facto]]'' segregated as a whites-only neighborhood. In 1954, [[African American|black]] [[Korean War]] veteran and [[electrician]] Andrew Wade IV and his wife Charlotte, who had found themselves unable to buy a home in a suburban neighborhood due to [[Jim Crow]] housing discrimination, got help from activists [[Carl Braden|Carl]] and [[Anne Braden]].<ref>[http://crdl.usg.edu/cgi/crdl?query=id:kdl_abrad_19891111tachau Interview with Eric Tachau and Mary Tachau, November 11, 1989] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101170203/http://crdl.usg.edu/cgi/crdl?query=id:kdl_abrad_19891111tachau |date=November 1, 2019 }}, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, [[University of Kentucky]] archives, Catherine Fosl, interviewer.</ref><ref>Howlet, Rick, [http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/12/01/louisville-civil-rights Louisville Remembers a Tumultuous Time 60 Years Ago] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716130736/http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/12/01/louisville-civil-rights |date=July 16, 2015 }}, [[WBUR-FM]], December 1, 2014.</ref> The Wades selected a house in Shively that they wanted to buy, and the Bradens bought it on their behalf and deeded it over to them.<ref>[http://crdl.usg.edu/export/html/kdl/abrad/crdl_kdl_abrad_19891108wade.html Interview with Andrew Wade, November 8, 1989] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055239/http://crdl.usg.edu/export/html/kdl/abrad/crdl_kdl_abrad_19891108wade.html |date=March 4, 2016 }}, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, [[University of Kentucky]] archives, Catherine Fosl, interviewer.</ref><ref>[http://205.204.134.47/civil_rights_mvt/util.aspx?p=1&pid=15540 Video Interview with Anne Braden] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212104711/http://205.204.134.47/civil_rights_mvt/util.aspx?p=1&pid=15540 |date=February 12, 2015 }}, [[Kentucky Historical Society]].</ref> Soon afterwards, the Wades' home was repeatedly attacked—including [[cross burning]] on an adjacent lot, rocks through their windows, rifle shots into the house, and ultimately a dynamite bomb that exploded under their daughter's bedroom while they were in the home (no one was injured).<ref>[http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/Moments14RS/web/legislative%20moment%2037.pdf Civil War to Civil Rights: Andrew Wade Home Bombing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140605213353/http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/Moments14RS/web/legislative%20moment%2037.pdf |date=June 5, 2014 }}, [[Kentucky Historical Society]]</ref><ref>[http://crdl.usg.edu/people/w/wade_andrew_iv/ Wade, Andrew IV] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402143835/http://crdl.usg.edu/people/w/wade_andrew_iv/ |date=April 2, 2015 }}, Civil Rights Digital Library, Digital Library of Georgia, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.</ref> The news made national headlines. Anne Braden wrote a 1958 memoir, ''The Wall Between''. No one was ever convicted of the crime. But the Bradens were charged with [[sedition]] for their actions. Carl Braden was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison; he spent seven months in jail before state-level sedition convictions were overturned by a [[U.S. Supreme Court]] ruling in [[Pennsylvania v. Nelson|a related case]] in 1956.<ref>Fox, Margalit, [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/national/17braden.html?_r=0 Anne Braden, 81, Activist in Civil Rights and Other Causes, Dies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402184414/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/national/17braden.html?_r=0 |date=April 2, 2015 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 17, 2006.</ref> After the bombing, the Wades left and very few other blacks attempted to move in, and the community remained a largely white "[[sundown town]]" well into the 1960s.<ref>{{cite news|first=Bob|last=White|title=Andrew Wade IV, first black man to buy a house in Shively, dies|work=[[The Courier-Journal]]|date=September 25, 2005|page=06B}}</ref> Since the 1970s, the black population has grown to about 30 percent, a greater percentage than in the [[Louisville metropolitan area]] as a whole, and more than double the percentage in the U.S. population as a whole.

Increased taxes and changing tastes closed most of Shively's distilleries in the late 1960s. Shively's population has gradually declined since reaching 19,223 in 1970. Budget surpluses became shortfalls, and Shively tried but failed to annex more suburban territory in [[Pleasure Ridge Park]] in 1984. The same year, the town was hit with a scandal when police chief Michael Donio admitted to taking bribes to allow [[prostitution]] in the area. Such events led to the community's reputation as "Lively Shively" (as the name of the town is pronounced with a "long i", this is a rhyme).