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Linton, Indiana: 300 black strikebreakers were expelled from the coal mining town of Linton after one of the strikebreakers shot a white boy. Eventually blacks were banned from living in all of Greene County. [10] August 27, 1897 Elwood, Indiana [11] November 10, 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina
Elwood is a city in Madison and Tipton counties in the U.S. state of Indiana. [2] The Madison County portion, which is nearly all of the city, is part of the Indianapolis–Carmel–Anderson metropolitan statistical area. The population of Elwood was 8,410 at the 2020 census. [4]
Greensburg, Indiana, experienced race riots in 1906 [66] and 1907. [67] Sociologist James W. Loewen described the town as a sundown town in his 2005 book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. [68] Greenwood, Indiana, had an unwritten law "forbidding Negroes to be in town after dark according to the Indiana Civil Rights ...
Apr. 10—A video by an Indiana State University student critical of Black individuals performing country music is drawing scathing criticism on campus and beyond. ISU students and alumni ...
The Indiana Klan was the state of Indiana branch of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret society in the United States that organized in 1915 to promote ideas of racial superiority and affect public affairs on issues of Prohibition, education, political corruption, and morality. Like the rest of the KKK, it was strongly white supremacist against African ...
A black Indiana policeman also confirms that "Elwood is by reputation still off-limits." email 11/2007: There are now some black families that live in Elwood and at first you would again hear people questioning it but now a lot of people that were questioning the situation of these black families living in Elwood are no longer, and that they ...
Anti-Indigenous racism in Indiana (2 P) H. History of slavery in Indiana (7 P) K. Ku Klux Klan in Indiana (9 P) S. Sundown towns in Indiana (14 P)
An Indiana woman who hurled racial slurs and made death threats to her Black and Hispanic neighbors was ordered to pay $225,000 by federal judge.