Meet The Artists Indianapolis Public Library artist-in-residence Anthony Radford put together the first Meet the Artists showcase in 1988. The event showcases the work of some of Indianapolis’s top African American visual artists… Read More »Meet The Artists
Michael Taylor Case Michael Taylor Jr., a 16-year-old Black youth, was shot and killed on September 24, 1987, while in police custody. The incident ignited community concern and symbolized the public relations problems… Read More »Michael Taylor Case
Mike Tyson Case Michael (Mike) G. Tyson, world heavyweight boxing champion from 1986 to 1990, was prosecuted in Indianapolis in 1992 in one of the most highly publicized trials in the city’s history.… Read More »Mike Tyson Case
Robert F. Kennedy Speech On the evening of April 4, 1968, as more than a hundred cities erupted in violence following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) stood… Read More »Robert F. Kennedy Speech
U.S. v. Board of School Commissioners United States v. Board of School Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, was rooted in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education that racial… Read More »U.S. v. Board of School Commissioners
Vaughan v. Williams Singleton Vaughan, a Missouri slaveholder, purchased Sam, Mariah, and their child from a slave trader in 1836. In 1837, with help from the Underground Railroad, the enslaved family escaped from… Read More »Vaughan v. Williams
Whitcomb v. Chavis In 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a 1969 U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision that had declared that a 1965 Indiana reapportionment statute for state legislative seats diluted… Read More »Whitcomb v. Chavis