African Americans in Indianapolis:Tthe Story of a People Determined to be Free

David Leander Williams
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A powerful collection of profiles of historically significant and courageous black leaders, musicians, artists, teachers, civic leaders, entrepreneurs, and more who answered the call to improve themselves and Indianapolis and beyond against dangerous situations and overwhelming odds. 


Indiana History

  • Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy During Jim Crow.


  • Fighting Hoosiers: Indiana in Two World Wars


  • Indiana Originals: Hoosier Heroes & Heroines


  • Indianapolis Then and Now


  • The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland


  • Dreams of Duneland: A Pictorial History of Indiana


  • Showers Brothers Furniture Company: The Shared Fortunes of a Family, a City, and a University


  • Madge: The life and Times of Madge Oberholtzer, the Young Irvington Woman Who Brought Down D. C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan


  • The Terror of Indiana Bent Jones & The Moody-Tolliver Feud


  • The Kimberlins go to War: A Union Family in Copperhead Country


  • African Americans in Indianapolis:Tthe Story of a People Determined to be Free


  • Indiana and the Great Flood of 1913


  • Monroe County Everyday Life in Indiana