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At the invitation of leaders of the Indianapolis YMCA, Jesse E. Moorland visited the city in the early 1900s and recommended the establishment of a new branch of the YMCA for the city's Black population. [1] At the same time, in 1900, two doctors from Ninth Presbyterian Church, Henry L. Hummons and Dan H. Brown, created a Young Men's Prayer Band.
Jones led the Indianapolis YMCA to statewide prominence, and then led the Crawfordsville YMCA, both of which claimed state YMCA championships under his guidance. Due to his success with YMCA-based leagues, Butler University contracted Jones to coach basketball for the 1903–04 season. This was the first "official" head coaching job in the long ...
After Faburn DeFrantz took on a leadership position in the Senate Avenue YMCA, they involved political and social issue speakers from across the United States. [4] These meetings started in 1905. [2] Monster Meetings, which took place November-March on Sundays, was highly popular in downtown Indianapolis according to the Indianapolis Recorder ...
Located in the district is the separately listed Shortridge High School. Other notable buildings include the Vernon Court Apartments (1928), Fronenac Apartments (1951), Biltmore Apartments (1927), Meridian Apartments (1929), New Yorker Apartments (1917), Howland Manor (1929), Powell-Evans House (1911), Harms House (1906), Dorchester Apartments ...
In 1928, Shortridge High School moved from downtown Indianapolis to a new building at its current location at 34th and Meridian Street on the north side of Indianapolis. [18] The environment in the school in the 1950s was described in the novel Going All The Way by Shortridge High alumnus Dan Wakefield (published in 1970 and adapted to film in ...
The YMCA Youth and Government program was established in 1936 in New York by Clement A. Duran, then the Boys Work Secretary for the Albany YMCA. [5] The program motto, “Democracy must be learned by each generation,” was taken from a quote by Earle T. Hawkins, the founder of the Maryland Youth and Government program.
Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) is the largest school district in Indianapolis, and the second largest school district in the state of Indiana as of 2021, behind Fort Wayne Community Schools. [2] The district's headquarters are in the John Morton-Finney Center for Educational Services.
The establishment of the National Institute for Fitness and Sports (NIFS) was part of Indianapolis’s urban renewal strategy to become a national leader in amateur sports. [ 1 ] The National Institute for Sports and Fitness located on the IUPUI campus was constructed in 1987 by Browning, Day, Dierdorf, Inc.