Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century
Emma Lou Thornbrough
Edited and with a final chapter by Lana Ruegamer
Sequel to Thornbroug s early groundbreaking study of African
Americans.
Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century is the long-awaited
sequel to Emma Lou Thornbrough s classic study The Negro in Indiana
before 1900. In this posthumous volume, Thornbrough (1913 1994),
the acknowledged dean of black history in Indiana, chronicles the
growth, both in numbers and in power, of African Americans in a
northern state that was notable for its antiblack tradition. She
shows the effects of the Great Migration of African Americans to
Indiana during World War I and World War II to work in war
industries, linking the growth of the black community to the
increased segregation of the 1920s and demonstrating how World War
II marked a turning point in the movement in Indiana to expand the
civil rights of African Americans.
Indiana Blacks describes the impact of the national civil rights
movement on Indiana, as young activists, both black and white,
challenged segregation and racial injustice in many aspects of
daily life, often in new organizations and with new leaders. The
final chapter by Lana Ruegamer explores ways that black identity
was affected by new access to education, work, and housing after
1970, demonstrating gains and losses from integration.
Emma Lou Thornbrough (1913 1994), the acknowledged expert on
Indiana black history, was author of The Negro in Indiana before
1900: A Study of a Minority (1957, reprinted 1993) and Since
Emancipation: A Short History of Indiana Negroes, 1863 1963 (1964)
and editor of This Far by Faith: Black Hoosier Heritage (1982).
Professor of History at Butler University from 1946 to 1983,
Thornbrough held the McGregor Chair in History and received the
university s highest award, the Butler Medal. Born in Indianapolis,
she was educated at Shortridge High School, Butler University, and
the University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1946).
Lana Ruegamer, editor for the Indiana Historical Society from
1975 to 1984, is author of A History of the Indiana Historical
Society, 1830 1980. She taught at Indiana University from 1986 to
1998 and is presently associate editor of the Indiana Magazine of
History. Ruegamer won the 1995 Thornbrough prize for best article
published in that magazine.
Contents
Editor s Introduction
The Age of Accommodation
The Great Migration and the First World War
The 1920s: Increased Segregation
Depression and New Deal
The Second World War
Postwar Years: Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement
School Desegregation
The Turbulent 1960s
Since 1970 Advances and Retreats
The Continuing Search for Identity"
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