People of Indianapolis 1983

Black Panther Party

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The Black Panther Party was founded in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale as an organization dedicated to protecting and uplifting the Black population of Oakland. As the organization grew this focus spread to the rest of the United States and even abroad. The armed militancy and Marxist rhetoric employed by the Black Panthers, along with their philosophy of Black self-government caught the attention of both local law enforcement authorities and the FBI. As a result, many in the Pant...

Democratic Party

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Hampton, Lionel

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Lionel Hampton was born in Louisville, Kentucky on April 20, 1908. He died on August 31, 2002 in New York City. He showed a talent for music at an early age and by high school, was playing drums with a jazz band organized by his employer, a newspaper called the Chicago Defender. Later, he attended classes in music theory at the University of Southern California and gained a reputation as a great drummer on the West Coast. In 1930, Louis Armstrong, when working for Les Hite’s band, a...

Basie, Count, 1904-1984

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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

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Duke Ellington (b. Edward Kennedy Ellington, April 29, 1899, Washington, DC–d. May 24, 1974, New York, NY) was a composer, pianist, and jazz orchestra leader. He began piano lessons at 7 and wrote his first composition, "Soda Fountain Rag", in 1914. Ellington became a more serious piano student as a teenager after hearing poolroom pianists in Washington, DC. Ellington moved to Harlem, ultimately becoming part of the Harlem Renaissance in the early 1920s. He began a regular booking at the Cott...

Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986

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Benny Goodman was born in Chicago, May 30, 1909. He received his first musical training at a local synagogue, and later studied clarinet with Franz Schoepp. Goodman made his debut at the age of twelve, and left home to become a full-time professional clarinetist when he was sixteen. After a decade of performing as a free-lancer and as a member of Ben Pollak's band, Goodman established his first big band in 1934, and soon it achieved unprecedented success. He won great ac...

United States. National Labor Relations Board

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After the first National Labor Relations Board was functionally abolished by the Supreme Court decision invalidating the National Industrial Recovery Act, May 27, 1935, a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was established as an independent agency by the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (NLRA) (49 Stat. 195), dated July 5, 1935. The Supreme Court in 1937 declared the Board constitutional and sustained Congress’s power to regulate employers whose operations affected interstate commerce...

Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965

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Walker, C. J., Madam, 1867-1919

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Madam C.J. Walker was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America; her fortune came by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for black women through the business she founded, Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company. She was born Sarah Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana; she was the first child in her family born into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation was sign...

Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965

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Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, and farmer who served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the 33rd vice president of the United States, and the 10th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was also the presidential nominee of the left-wing Progressive Party in the 1948 election. The oldest son of Henry C. Wallace, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1921 to 1924, Henry A. Wallace was born in Adair County, Iowa in...

Fisk University

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Established as Fisk Free Colored School in Nashville, Tenn., in Dec. 1865 by John Ogden, Rev. Erastus Milo Caravath, and Rev. Edward P. Smith; named in honor of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Tennessee and Kentucky, who provided the new institution with facilities and contributed over $30,000 to the school; opened on 9 Jan. 1866 with almost two hundred students of all ages; incorporated as Fisk University on 22 Aug. 1867 after its curriculum shifted to ...

National Council of Negro Women

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The National Council of Negro Women (NANW) was founded December 5, 1935 by Mary McLeod Bethune. It grew out of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Bethune was an educator and the daughter of former slaves. She branched off the ideas of the NACW and began the start of the NCNW to help African American women and their families. Women on the council fought more towards political and economic successes of black women to uplift them in society. NCNW fulfills this mission through researc...

Dairy Queen

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Hayes, Earl C.

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Ankrum Ice Cream Company

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Smith, Floyd

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Columbia Law School

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Womack, Arthur Walter

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Edgewood Arsenal

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International Brotherhood of Cement Workers Local 532

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Block's Department Store

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Cornish, Erin

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Wishard Memorial Hospital

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Progressive Party (1912)

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Black Business League

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Talladega College

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Green, Casey

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Patton, Billy

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Goodwill Industries

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Coney, Elmo G.

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RCA

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Butler University

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Stouffer's Inn

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Lane Bryant

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Lopez, Consuelo

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United Auto Workers, Local 1111

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Afro-American Journal

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Madame C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company

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United Auto Workers, Local 226

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A & I State College

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Ku Klux Klan

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National Council of Churches

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Jordan Conservatory of Music

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Columbia Cleaners

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Indianapolis Musicians Local 3

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Bethany Baptist Church

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Jones, Jim.

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Boy Scouts of America Bugle Corps

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Indianapolis recorder.

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George Pheldon Stewart (1874-1924) was an African American community leader; with William H. Porter he established the Indianapolis Recorder in 1895. Portraits of church leaders and politicians illustrated articles beginning about 1916, news photographs were used regularly starting in the 1940s and by 1960 photographs illustrated all sections of the newspaper. From the description of Collection [graphic], ca. 1900-1983. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 384806...

Lilly, Arnold

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Carter, Benny

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Benny Carter and Maxwell Glanville, composers and lyricists. Gertrude Greenidge and Maxwell Glanville, librettists. Besseye Scott, lyricist for "Save His Soul Instead." From the description of Twit: typescript, 1974, 1979. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122363948 ...

United States Army Judge Advocate General Corps

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University of Illinois System

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National Malleable and Steel Castings

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Baker, David

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Pointer, Howard

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Village Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

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Woodford, Hazel

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Blake, Clinton

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Communist Party

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Indiana Civil Rights Commission

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Emmanuel Baptist Church

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Charlotte High School

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People United to Serve Humanity

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Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory

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Shiloh Baptist Church

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Indianapolis Urban League

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The Indianapolis Urban League was founded in 1965 as an affiliate of the National Urban League, and is the successor to the Association for Merit Employment. It is a nonprofit, charitable organization whose purpose is to eliminate racial discrimination and create opportunities in housing, education, health, and employment for African Americans, other minorities, and the poor. From the description of Records, 1933-1983. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 3188400...

Johnson, J.J.

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Harrah-Conforth, Jeanne

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U.S. Rubber Company

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Fletcher Place

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Hike, Ernie

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Calloway, Cap

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Socialist Worker's Party

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Indiana State Fairgrounds

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St. Meinrad Monastery

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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia –d. April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to M...

Galyans

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Richardson, Henry

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Epithet: Captain; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x0002d1 ...

UAW Local 645

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The United Automobile Workers of America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, began their organization drive in Muncie in 1935. Two years later the workers of the Warner Gear Division of Muncie were chartered as the Local 287 on March 25, 1937. Local 287 has been involved in two strikes against Borg-Warner (previously Warner Gear), once in 1953 that lasted for thirteen weeks and another in 1989 that lasted for fifty-two days. In 2007 Borg-Warner requested to open contract n...

Republican Party

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Ink Spots

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Arsenal Technical High School

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Crispus Attucks High School.

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Clowes Hall

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Wiggins, Charles

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Brokenburr, Robert Lee, 1886-1974

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Eli Lilly and company

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Indianapolis, IN. From the description of Collection, ca.1924-1952. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122347569 ...

Southern Railroad

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Grace Apostolic Church

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Sloss, Selonia

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Watson, Anna

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International Harvester company

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New Life Missionary Baptist Church

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Citizens Forum, Incorporated

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Watson, Dink

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Wolford, John

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Martin Center College

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Mouver Foundry

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Internal Revenue Service

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Spellman College

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UAW

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Marion County Bar Association

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Jolsen, Al

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Indianapolis Department of Parks and Recreation

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Ransom, Freeman B. (Freeman Bailey), 1882-1974

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Catholic Youth Organization.

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Human Rights Commission

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Laskey, Sarah Lee

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Cooke, Sam

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Tuskegee Army Air Base

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Ransom, Willard B. Mike

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Boatright

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Stone, Greg

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Magnolia Baptist Church

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Harvard Law School

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Law clubs were established to provide students an opportunity to practice preparing and arguing law cases as realistically as possible. Law clubs began to be founded at Harvard in the 19th century; one of the earliest was the Marshall Club, founded in 1825. In 1910, the Board of Student Advisers was formed, and the more formal Ames Competition in Appellate Brief Writing and Advocacy was established. From the description of General information by and about Harvard Law School clubs, 18...

Ford motor company

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When Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903, Alexander Y. Malcolmson was elected the Company's first treasurer, but his assistant James Couzens actually managed financial functions. People holding the position of Ford Motor Company treasurer from 1903 to 1955 included Alexander Y. Malcolmson, 1903-1906; James J. Couzens, 1906-1915; Frank L. Klingensmith, 1915-1921; Edsel B Ford, 1921-1943; B. J. Craig, 1943-1946; and L. E. Briggs, 1946-1955. In 1903, the business office was in a small building o...

Indiana State Library

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Lilly Endowment

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Cato Tabernacle

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