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| Entrance to Museum |
Crispus Attucks, a stevedore, who is said to be the first person killed in the American Revolution. Crispus Attucks was a Black Native who memorabilia along with other notable Black historical figures and facts are housed in the Crispus Attucks Museum along Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Crispus Attucks High was a segregated Black School established in 1927.
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| 23 African American Settlements in Indiana |
You will also learn about the FEMA project Lockefield Gardens which was the first public housing built for the Colored/Black people in 1935 in Indianapolis Downtown. The name Lockefield is taken from Erie Locke, a Indy City Councilman. Lockefield Garden Apartment Colored subdivision lines was 47 acres in the regional center off Locke St and Paca street. Lockefield was also very near to the City Hospital which also may have been by design.
This area was in Midtown, a historical black community in the year 1821, near Mile Square plat near Indiana Ave and Black St and very close to the Madam CJ Walker Building which is currently under renovation. The plan area is often credited to stem from The Roosevelt Administration New deal to create better housing for the poor with fellow Architects William Earl Russ & Merrit Harrison. And were modeled after row houses in Germany called Zeilenbau formation of heliotropic housing.
Mr. Robert Chester is the curator & contributor to all the art work and informative information. The museum ranges in artifacts from American and African History & other crafts from the Black land throughout Egypt and abroad.
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| Notable Black Figures in Indianapolis and in US History |
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| Queen Nefertiti tomb |
Africa has landmass of over 1,706,000 square miles. The USA, Europe, India, Argentina, New Zealand and China could fit inside the continent.
African Values:
Spirituality is Key
Community is Key
Creativity is Key
Culture is Key
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| Please enlarge to read thoroughly |
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| Please enlarge to read thoroughly |
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| Please enlarge to read thoroughly |
African Influences in the Americas
Discoverers and Explorers
From Olmecs Civilization to the record of Atrocities
Discoverers and Explorers
From Olmecs Civilization to the record of Atrocities
Including the time line of the explorers, invaders, and colonizers
Portugal 1444-1870
Spain 1479-1835
England 1562-1807
United States 1619-1861
Holland 1625-1803
France 1642-1860
Denmark 1647-1825
Sweden 1697-1792
There were 250 documented slave revolts. Enslaved African never accepted their conditions passively and resisted slavery.
AD 600 the Moors of Africa begin their conquest of Spain and the Iberian Peninsula.
AD 800 the occupation of Spain, the Moors of Africa import their educational systems and establish 17 universities. There were only two universities in Europe until this time.
Black Miracles
The miracles of Black Inventors and scientists
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| The Ex slave bounty and pension association |
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| Degrading plaques |
September 15, 1963 16th St Baptist Church Bombing Birmingham, AL by the KKK that ended up killing:
Addie Mae Collins
Cynthia Wesley
Carole Robertson
Denise McNair
In the spring of 1866, a year after the end of the American Civil War, six confederate veterans formed a social club in the town of Pulaski, Tennessee. They took the name from the Greek word Kuklos, meaning circle. They turned kuklos into Ku Klux and added the word Klan. Ultimately this small group also known as The invisible Empire grew to become the Nations largest terrorist organization.
Indy's Musical Legends
Oscar Robertson Blvd is named after The Big O.
Ann Faye Brown and Lilian Broadus discuss their futures as scientific miracle workers as Ms. Broadus demonstrates her electrophoretic experiment, first place winner in the 1960 science fair.
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| Who Speaks for the Negro? |
Kappa Alpha PSI Fraternity Inc
Diamond Jubilee
