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The former Kokomo City Building, a historic site in Center Township Location in Howard County Coordinates: 40°29′01″N 86°08′09″W / 40.48361°N 86.13583°W / 40.48361; -86
The Indiana Department of National Resources continues to sponsor an Indiana Freedom Trails History Marker Program. The Indiana Freedom Trails, Inc., a nonprofit organization, was established in 1998 to support research and educational efforts related to Indiana sites and routes that were part of the underground network. [87]
While in Jackson, Freedom Riders received support from local grassroots civil rights organization Womanpower Unlimited, which raised money and collected toiletries, soap, candy and magazines for the imprisoned protesters. Upon Freedom Riders' release, Womanpower members would provide places for them to bathe while offering them clothes and food.
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On April 9, 1947, a group of eight white men and eight Black men began the first “freedom ride” to challenge laws that mandated segregation on buses in defiance of the 1946 U.S. Supreme Court ...
The originally designated road along modern SR 22 was SR 35, running between Kokomo and SR 11 (now SR 9), with SR 22 being routed between SR 16 (now SR 62) and Indianapolis. In the mid-1920s the state of Indiana renumber its state road system and the SR 22 designated was moved to an alignment, between Illinois state line and US 52. In the early ...
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In the 1947 film Mother Wore Tights, Betty Grable and Dan Dailey sing a song entitled "Kokomo, Indiana". [141] Kokomo is the setting of Allan Dwan's nostalgic 1953 musical Sweethearts on Parade. [142] [143] "First Snow in Kokomo" is a track on Aretha Franklin's album Young, Gifted and Black. Franklin's domestic partner Ken Cunningham was born ...