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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Mrs. Mynelle Gardner on the impact of the Black Movement in the1960s. Ms. Gardner begins by describing the Black Movement and the goals of its participants. The hosts discuss the ultimate successes and failures of the movement, as well as its impact on modern Black people. They also discuss teaching children about the movement and about Black history.
Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017, Smith, Dwight, Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012
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Part 4 in the series: Afro-American in Indiana. Host Dwight Smith and guests Rev. Boniface Hardin and Sister Jane Edward Schilling discuss the "Golden Era" of Reconstruction after the Civil War (1866-1900), public education available to Black people, role of Indiana Supreme Court in the segregation of schools, inaccuracy of census figures around 1877, restoration of Home Rule (Jim Crow), the role of Black teachers and principals, and Black owned newspapers. Smith, Hardin, and Schilling also discuss major figures such as the Bagby brothers, James Hinton, Rev. James Townsend, Rev. Richards Bassett, Gabriel, Dr. Samuel E. Elbert, Dr. Sumner Furnace, Dr. George Washington Buckner, and JBT Hill.
Fr. Boniface Hardin and Dwight Smith host this episode on which Jerry Harkness, a former player for the Knicks and Pacers, joins the program as a guest. Hardin, Smith, and Harkness discuss the challenging path to success for Black musicians, including financial exploitation, white musicians copying the work of Black musicians, and barriers to finding places to sleep and eat as a performer. Indiana Avenue and the Cotton Club in the '40s are discussed. The hosts and guest speak about famous musicians from Indiana and elsewhere such as the Ink Spots, George Porter, Montgomery Brothers, Freddy Hubbard, Larry Ridley, Dave Baker, J.J. Johnson. High school teachers Jack Powell and Frank Clay are discussed. The influence of church music and families like the Hamptons, the availability of records of early artists, the business side of Black music in the 1940s, and the classical music scene are also topics covered in this program.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Smith, Dwight, Harkness, Jerry, 1940-, Cornell, Ken
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Rev. Boniface Hardin and Dwight Smith host this episode with Jerry Harkness, former basketball player for the Indianapolis Pacers and New York Knicks, and Ken Cornell, voice of the Crispus Attucks Tigers from WTLC. Hardin, Smith, Harkness, and Cornell discuss the athletics and the Black man in Indiana, difficult circumstances for Black athletes in basketball, football, boxing, track, wrestling, and segregated schools. The hosts and guests discuss famous athletes and coaches from Indiana and elsewhere such as Oscar Robinson, Lamar Lundy, Timmy Brown, Ray Crower, Benny Charleston, Holcombe Rucker, Lee Calhoun, Jo Ann Terry, Greg Bell, Prince Pullins, and Bill Gary. Other topics discussed in this program focused on Black athletes who became Indiana's Mr. Basketball, Black athletes who won the Trester Award, the benefits of athletics and upward mobility for Black athletes, and professional and amateur "colored" leagues.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Smith, Dwight, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Dwight Smith, Rev. Boniface Hardin, and Sister Jane Edward Schilling discuss the Northwest Territory settlement and its relation to Black people, focusing on indentured servants and laws governing slavery, and the "negro" register. Other topics covered in the program are Indianapolis as a "Slave Catcher Town," the Black settlements in Indiana, the Ben Ishmaelites and settlements in Indianapolis, the origins of migration of Black people, problematic state laws, the Underground Railroad, the role of churches in helping Blacks, specifically the Quakers, and terminology used in referring to Black people.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017, Smith, Dwight
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Dwight Smith, Rev. Boniface Hardin, and Sister Jane Edward Schilling discuss the laws that restricted Black people in Indiana, the constitution of 1851, and the civil war and its effects on blacks in Indiana. Other topics discussed are the Indiana Colonization Society, Frederick Douglass' speech in Richmond and Pendleton, Sojourner Truth's speech in Greenville, racial situations in Evansville, the contradiction of religion and slavery, and cemeteries as research sites, the 28th Regimen United States Colored Troops, and the battle of Petersburg on July 30, 1865.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017, Smith, Dwight
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Part 3 in the series: Afro-American in Indiana. Host Dwight Smith and featured guest Rev. Boniface Hardin and Sister Jane Edward Schilling discuss inclusion of Black men in the Civil War and politics, attitudes towards slavery of presidents up to Abraham Lincoln, and the limits of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Smith, Hardin and Schilling examine the Reconstruction era, the Baptist Association statement, and Indiana laws that excluded blacks, preventing them from entering Indiana. The role of the Supreme Court, Indiana court cases, the restoration of "home rule", and Jim Crow are discussed. Figures discussed are Andrew Johnson, Rev, Moses Broyels, Governor Oliver Martin, and Rutherford B. Hayes, the AME church, and Governor Oliver Martin as an advocate of civil rights.
Smith, Dwight, Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Part 5 in the series: Afro-American in Indiana. Host Dwight Smith and featured guests Rev. Boniface Hardin and Sister Jane Edward Schilling discuss their research methods; the use of "Afro-American" in The Freeman paper, in Black community papers in Indiana, and by W.E.B. DuBois and Frederick Douglass; the first Black film; and White race riots. Other topics include William McCoy, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Dudley Randall.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012., Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017.
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling on Indianapolis musician Noble Sissle. The hosts discuss Sissle’s life through anecdotes, starting with stories about his childhood and family. They talk about his upbringing in the church and his singing career. The hosts also discuss his involvement with Butler University, his time with James Europe’s band, and his partnership with Eubie Blake.
A recording of Benjamin Bradford’s Post Mortem, a radio drama that won first place in the Golden Windmill Radio Drama Contest. The drama follows a mortician and the spirit of a young boy as they perform an autopsy. They discuss the boy’s short life, the mortician’s career aspirations, and the situation leading up to his death. The drama concludes with the mortician considering the life of his own son and the boy drifting away.