The establishment of the fraternity was a major step for Black men at the Indiana University, where segregation rules prevented them from participating in many of the school’s organizations.
A photo take in the 1930s or '40s shows that all of the production workers for Baus Manufacturing Co. were African American women. They made work gloves.
Sarah Dalton Todd's memoir provided clues Grace Abernethy sought to learn about Black families who did laundry and other domestic work on East Seventh Street around the turn of the 20th century.
Out of nearly 5,000 “Rosenwald” schools built to educate African American students in the south, approximately 500 remain. Photographers, advocates, and academics are working to preserve their history.
While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured despite suffering decades of enslavement and second-class citizenship.
