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Front page of the Indianapolis Leader, one of Indiana's first African American newspapers. Newspaper rack with issues of the Gary Crusader in 2020. Various African American newspapers have been published in Indiana. The Evansville weekly Our Age, which was in circulation by 1878, is the first known African American newspaper in Indiana. [1]
In the era, the Fort Wayne minor league teams shared league Park with the Fort Wayne Colored Giants of the Negro Leagues, who began play in 1907. [24] [25] Today, there is a baseball historical marker at the League Park site. [26] The League Park site between South Clinton Street and South Calhoun Street is known today as Headwaters Park. [27]
The Mudd family soon moved from Kentucky to Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1915. After living in Fort Wayne, for thirteen years, Mudd Brooks mother died in 1928 of unreported causes. [2] Mudd Brooks became the mother figure for her six siblings. Though her mother's death made an impact on her, she still excelled in school, including as an athlete.
After the English withdrew, the region's maroons occupied what became known as the Negro Fort, which they held until 1816, when a U.S. gunboat incinerated it with hundreds of people inside ...
Chapman Harris, a free African American, was a member of the underground network by the 1830s. His family's cabin, about 3 miles (4.8 km) from Madison, was a safe house for fugitives who crossed the Ohio River. Harris's associate, Elijah Anderson, a free-born African American whose cabin was also a station, helped ferry fugitives across the river.
Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on June 11, 1930, Bright was the second oldest of five brothers. Bright lived with his mother and step father Daniel Bates, brothers, Homer Bright, the eldest, Alfred, Milton, and Nate Bates, in a working class, predominantly African-American neighborhood in Fort Wayne. [5]: 13–14, 52
This is a list of African American newspapers and media outlets, which is sortable by publication name, city, state, founding date, and extant vs. defunct status. For more detail on a given newspaper, see the linked entries below. See also by state, below on this page, for entries on African American newspapers in each state.
The Page Fence Giants were a professional Black-American baseball team based in Adrian, Michigan, from 1895 to 1898, performing as one of the nation's top teams in the Negro leagues. Named after the Page Woven Wire Fence Company in Adrian, they were sponsored by its founder, J. Wallace Page.