The goal for
#BlackHistoryMonth
is 207 new subscribers. I make videos about history, mostly Black History, but sometimes other things grab my interest. I'll be dropping 29 videos this month. Lend me your energy likes & subscriptions.
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The first
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Month video is about Lick Creek,
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. An area that has been reclaimed by nature, but was once home to the first known Black settlers in the state, before it was even a state.
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Voting rights in The United States are constantly under attack, not just today, but always.
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is no different. That's why in 1876 there was a riot on election day in 1876.
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Day 3 is Myra C. Selby. She's the first woman to sit on the Indiana Supreme Court, and simultaneously became the first Black person to do the same.
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Today's video is about Mozel Sanders, The
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and the impact that Rev. Sanders left on Indianapolis.
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Today, The Ransom of John Freeman. Freeman was a free man & restaurant owner. A farmer used the fugitive slave law to claim John was an escaped slave from Kentucky & excuse my French but what follows was a bunch of fuckery.
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One of the wrongs done here is John was forced to pay for his own incarceration. That still goes on today. House arrest is not free. I am once again reminding you our criminal justice system is barbaric.
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Day 6 of
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and I'm talking about James S. Hinton. The first Black person elected to the Indiana House of Representatives. He used to cut hair while attending school, that should tell you what kind of guy he is.
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Forgot to post the video link for the 7th. But could never forget Robert Brokenburr's contributions to Indiana. The first Black Senator, Chairman of Madam CJ Walker's Manufacturing, tireless civil rights lawyer and philanthropist.
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Lucy Higgs Nichols ran away from slavery with her young daughter. She joined Indiana's 23rd Regiment and worked as a nurse. Returning to Indiana with them. When she was denied a Nurse's pension they stepped up.
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Today's
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episode is about George L Knox. He ran across the battlefield during the Civil War to escape slavery. Opened some a barbershop, brought a pro baseball team to Indianapolis & was a publisher of a Black newspaper & literature.
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The Lynching of John Tucker happened just two blocks from the center of Indianapolis. John was walking home on the 4th of July and was attacked by 3 white men who didn't even know each other.
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Day 11, I'm covering Mercer Mance. The first Black judge rejected in the history of Indiana. As a lawyer he worked tirelessly to fight for equality.
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Samuel Elbert could not read until well into his 20s. Still, he learned, attended medical school & became the first Black doctor in Indiana.
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Mari Evans became one of the most studied poets ever due to her book, "I am A Black Woman," providing one of the earliest and most direct depictions of what it means to be Black & a woman.
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Joseph A Ward would become the first Black doctor educated in Indianapolis. He also become the first head of Tuskegee Veteran's Hospital
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Gennett Records was a small record label in Richmond Indiana. They recorded & distributed early albums from jazz legends like Duke Ellington & King Oliver. Helping Jazz to secure a bigger audience across the Midwest
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The Walker Legacy Center & Walker Theatre are in the same building. A building commissioned by Madam CJ Walker. The building was once the center of The Black Community in Indianapolis.
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Hurley C. Goodall never met a challenge he didn't think he could overcome. Throughout his career he was Vice President of his auto workers union, 1st Black firefighter Muncie schoolboard member & from Deleware County elected as representative.
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Little more about Hurley is that he fought against Indiana's first abortion ban, tried to make it legal for state employees to unionize. He tried to pass the 1st hate crime bill in Indiana that would have made cross burning a felony.
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People often say progressives can't win in Indiana & Goodall is proof that's not the case. He doesn't have some career piece of legislation but spent almost 20 years on their asses pushing progressive policies and getting others elected.
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James TV Hill is known as The Dean of Negro Lawyers in Indianapolis. If there was something a lawyer could do he was the first Black person to do it & supported the careers of dozens of Black lawyers behind him.
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Crispus Attucks High Scool was the 1st segregated high school for Black students in Indiana. It also houses a museum dedicated to Black History. Not just Indianapolis, but the world.
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The Evansville African American History Museum is located in what remains of the Lincoln Gardens housing project, it came together after concerned citizens fought to save what was once the center of the Black community in Evansville
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Robert Bruce Bagby was the first Black person elected to city council in Indianapolis. Alongside his brothers he also founded the first Black newspaper in Indianapolis
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Lockfield Gardens was a housing project in Indianapolis. Centered on Indiana Avenue it was right in the center of one of the most popular Black neighborhoods in the city.
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Lilian Thomas Fox was the first Black person to write for a white owned newspaper. She also co-founded the Indianapolis Women's Improvement Club which would wage a war on tuberculosis when Black patients couldn't receive treatment.
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Oak Hill was the name of the first open air Tuberculosis camp in The United States. It was operated by the Indianapolis Women's Improvement Club, including Dr. Beulah Wright Porter Price
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William Edourd Scott was one of the artist who built a foundation for The Chicago Renaissance. Despite that his work was considered "conservative," because he chose to focus on lower income people.
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This video also briefly dives into how The New Negro Movement that was central to both The Harlem & Chicago Renaissance as well as Howard University's curriculum at the time was not universally loved even by some of the writers featured in the anthology.
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