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S. Henry Bundles Jr.
(Feb. 15, 1927-Mar. 26, 2019). Born on Indianapolis’s southside into a community of African Americans who had migrated from Kentucky during the early 1900s, S. Henry Bundles Jr. graduated from… Read More »S. Henry Bundles Jr.
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Lilly Endowment Building
The Lilly Endowment Building at 2801 North Meridian Street was originally the home office of one of Indiana’s oldest insurance companies, the Empire Life and Accident Insurance Company. Planned for… Read More »Lilly Endowment Building
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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
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Kiwanis International
Kiwanis International is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time. Founded in 1915 in Detroit, Kiwanis established its first… Read More »Kiwanis International
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Fusion Movement
The Fusion Movement was a political coalition that evolved into the Indiana Republican Party. The Kansas-Nebraska dispute of 1854 triggered an effort in Indiana to bring together such diverse groups… Read More »Fusion Movement
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A product of the Indianapolis Bicentennial effort (2020–21), the digital Encyclopedia of Indianapolis integrates and accesses the explosion and fragmentation of knowledge created both as born-digital information and as a large new digital archive.