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Jun 30, 2016 · Today, after decades of departures by middle class families who’ve flocked to the suburbs, the percentage of segregated elementary schools in IPS is now up to 20 percent — five times more than...
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Feb 2, 2013 · All of this information will help you put together the pieces of your ancestor’s story and help you to build a better, more complete family tree. The Indiana Historical Society has a collection of images of the facility available for viewing online. You can see them at the links below.
Jun 13, 2020 · Senior community resident was first black teacher in Indiana hometown. Annie Hicks won a court battle to become Hammond's first black teacher in the fall of 1960 at Maywood Elementary School. Trailblazing teacher says if we communicate, we can get along.
The Indianapolis Female School, founded in March 1830, was the first school in the city exclusively for women. Its founder, a Mrs. Tichenor, offered a curriculum of spelling, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, astronomy, and needlework.
This collection contains 21 black and white photographs of the 1964 Indiana Girls' School riot. Also included are two high school Freshman English papers written by Lucile Nordyke in 1920: "Leonard Wood, Presidential Candidate" and "Society Life in Early Indiana".
Women’s History Materials. This guide describes manuscript and visual collections in the William H. Smith Memorial Library of the Indiana Historical Society that document experiences of women in Indiana, the Midwest and the Old Northwest Territory.
Apr 26, 2021 · In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Indianapolis’s Indiana Avenue was a prosperous hub of Black-owned business and culture—a thriving district of restaurants, churches, newspapers, offices, and a national epicenter for Black music boasting more than 30 jazz clubs.
