Walgreens drugstore stood at this site before moving in early 2000. On November 27, 1958, representatives accompanying Mrs. Iris King, Mayor of Kingston, Jamaica, stopped there briefly for coffee after touring the downtown business district, but store management refused to serve her and black members of the delegation. As word spread, angry black leaders and citizens proposed a boycott of all downtown stores, while Central High School students led by educator Lyman T. Johnson protested in front of the store in the first public demonstration against a store policy serving blacks. One week later, Frank Stanley, editor of the Louisville Defender, reported that he was served at Walgreens without incident and praised the store's management for changing its policy in a December 11, 1958, editorial, but he also used the moment to urge passage of a city ordinance to end segregation policy, helping launch a long political and direct action campaign to achieve that goal. Walgreens became one of the first stores on Fourth Street to serve blacks before passage of the Public Accommodations Ordinance.