Welcome to Inside Louisville Moments and Rachel Platt is vice president of mission here at the Frazier History Museum.

And we are talking about significant moments in history to you here in Louisville.

To me.

So this is me personally.

And you know how I'm all about girl power, right?

So this is a woman who ended up being a mentor to me, which was Phyllis Knight, who was a trailblazer back in the day on radio and TV.

And we became friends.

And through those stories, she told me when she was covering the Kentucky Derby, she was not allowed in the press box because she was a woman.

She was always kept outside and kept at bay.

And it wasn't all that long ago, which is a shocking thing.

And it bothered me for so long after that that I called John Ascher at the time and I said, Did you know that Phyllis Knight was never allowed in the press box?

And I just think that's awful and we need to fix this.

Who was all in?

And they said, We're bringing her in, and we ended up setting a date in the press box.

Phyllis walked in, covered the derby for how many years, had never been inside, walked in.

No one knew the significance of the moment except for John Ascher and me.

I am standing a corner bawling like a baby, knowing that this wrong had now been corrected.

And that just was a really meaningful day to me to fight on and to let her have that moment where she finally got to go inside.

It's unbelievable.

I know you're right.

It's not that long ago.

It really wasn't.

But just to see history correct itself and do the right thing.

And John Ascher, I was forever grateful, but we understood the significance of that moment, and so did Phyllis Knight.

That's wonderful.

Well, you can hear more from Rachel on our episode of Inside Louisville, where she talks about some of the programing here at the Frazier Museum and some new exhibits that touch on some of those significant moments in Louisville history.

You can see that online streaming right now at KET dot org slash Inside Louisville.