The city of Corbin's website features a history page. It includes some colorful details about the town's labor history. But it doesn't mention the expulsion of hundreds of black people in 1919.
In 1919, a white mob forced the entire black population of Corbin, Kentucky, to leave, at gunpoint. It was one of many racial expulsions in the United States. What happened, and how such racial cleansings became “America’s family secret.”
The history of Corbin as presented by the Corbin city government, with no mention of the 1919 racial expulsion.