Ku Klux Klan Based on white supremacist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic beliefs, support for enforcement, and a wide range of traditional social, religious, and… Read More »Ku Klux Klan
Lawrence Lawrence is a Unigov located about 10 miles northeast of the Circle. It was originally platted in 1849 as the… Read More »Lawrence
Lawrence Township Lawrence is a northeastern Marion County township, roughly bordered by 96th Street, County Line Road, 38th Street, and Emerson and… Read More »Lawrence Township
Legendary Hills Legendary Hills is a neighborhood organization bounded by 71st Street to the north, Lots South of Daphne Drive to the… Read More »Legendary Hills
Henry Jackson Lewis (ca. 1830s-Apr. 10, 1891). Henry Jackson Lewis was born enslaved near Water Valley, Mississippi in the late 1830s, although some… Read More »Henry Jackson Lewis
Violet Temple Lewis (May 27, 1897-Mar. 22, 1968). Violet Temple Lewis was born in Lima, Ohio, to William David Harrison and Eva Brown… Read More »Violet Temple Lewis
Light of the World Christian Church Light of the World Christian Church was the first African American in Indianapolis. The Central Christian congregation, a predominately white… Read More »Light of the World Christian Church
Lincoln Hospital At a time when existing Indianapolis hospitals barred African American doctors from practice and only admitted African American patients, doctors… Read More »Lincoln Hospital
Cheney Lively (ca. 1790s-1858). Cheney Lively (also spelled Chaney, Chany, China, or Chinny) may have been the city’s first permanent African American… Read More »Cheney Lively
Daisy Lloyd (Oct. 15, 1923-May 15, 2019). Daisy Dorothy Riley Lloyd was born in Lawrence, Kansas, to Hiram and Nettie Henrie Riley.… Read More »Daisy Lloyd
