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By Jeffrey Fleishman, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Posted: February 08, 1995

GUTHRIE, Ky. — Stray dogs sidle on past the Redbone Saloon and nose around Bob's Bar-B- Que, where inside blacks and whites sit elbow to elbow eating the $3.65 shredded-pork platters and gripping sweaty mason jars of iced tea.

Blacks and whites have ordered Martha Kay's cooking for more than 30 years. ''I always say these eyes don't see color, they see souls," says Kay, a black woman with teeth trimmed in gold and a hair net as tight as a spider's web.

But outside Bob's and all around Todd County - the birthplace of Confederate President Jefferson Davis - folks are talking about skin color, buried hatreds and trampled civil rights.

Just a few miles down the road from Bob's, a white man who had been flying a rebel flag from the back of his pickup was shot and killed Jan. 14. Four black youths have been charged with the crime.More....................................