Indianapolis Music Promoters The Indianapolis Music Promoters Club was founded in 1919 as a branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians. Adelaide… Read More »Indianapolis Music Promoters
Indianapolis Public Library The best-known early efforts to foster reading and libraries in Indianapolis were the Union Sabbath School founded in 1823; the… Read More »Indianapolis Public Library
Indianapolis Public School 27 National Chess Champions Against all odds, a team of 11 inner-city students from Indianapolis Public School (IPS) 27 defeated a team from Hunter College… Read More »Indianapolis Public School 27 National Chess Champions
Indianapolis Public Schools Although Indiana’s 1816 constitution required the General Assembly to provide for a system of free public schools, equally open to… Read More »Indianapolis Public Schools
The Indianapolis Recorder The Indianapolis Recorder is a weekly newspaper that has been published since 1895. It is the nation’s fourth-oldest surviving African… Read More »The Indianapolis Recorder
Indianapolis Urban League Indianapolis Urban League (IUL) is a nonprofit, non-partisan, interracial, community-based social service civil rights organization affiliated with the National Urban… Read More »Indianapolis Urban League
Indy Police Athletic & Activities League Officer Forrest Higgs organized the first Police Athletic League (PAL) club at Rhodius Park (southwestern Indianapolis) in 1941 as part… Read More »Indy Police Athletic & Activities League
Olive (Ollie) A. Jackson (Nov. 16, 1895-June 29, 1917). Ollie Jackson, the first African American woman student at the , was born to Carrie… Read More »Olive (Ollie) A. Jackson
Jazz Although not a principal originator of jazz music like New Orleans, New York, and Chicago, Indianapolis possesses a rich jazz… Read More »Jazz
Jazz Kitchen The Jazz Kitchen is a jazz club and restaurant located on the corner of 54th Street and College Avenue, an… Read More »Jazz Kitchen
