October 6, 2011 - 9:23pm
Norb was a grassroots political organizer, par excellence. He knew more about the down-and-dirty art of precinct politics than anyone I ever met.
Louisville civil-rights pioneer Norbert L. Blume died yesterday, at 89. At a time when the Kentucky Democratic Party stood for segregation and racial discrimination, Blume, as Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, led his party and the Commonwealth into the sunlight of justice and...
