Louisville’s first African-American policewoman
Bertha Whedbee was born in 1879 in West Virginia. By 1900, she and her husband, Dr. Ellis D. Whedbee, a well-known local physician, were living in Louisville, Kentucky. Whedbee was a former kindergarten teacher who joined the Louisville Police Department in 1922, after local officers mistreated
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