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Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane on Andrew Ramsey and historical retelling. The hosts discuss the subjectivity of history before playing an excerpt of a lecture by Ramsey on Indianapolis history. Using examples from Ramsey’s lecture, the hosts touch on issues of recollection of Black history such as undocumented desegregation efforts and the exclusion of the Black presence.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017, Johnson, Paul, Hill, Anita Louise
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with a panel of guests including Sister Jane, Sister Anita and Paul Johnson on the Black man in Indiana’s perspective on Africa. They begin by discussing misconceptions of savage Africa and talk about rejecting one’s African ancestry. They discuss pan-Africanism, tracing one’s ancestry, and knowledge about African customs and locations.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Johnson, Paul, Hill, Anita Louise, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with a panel of guests including Sister Jane, Sister Anita, and Paul Johnson on the Black man in Indiana’s perspective on Africa. They begin by discussing misconceptions of savage Africa and talk about rejecting one’s African ancestry. They discuss pan-Africanism, tracing one’s ancestry, and knowledge about African customs and locations.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017, Johnson, Paul
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling and Paul Johnson about the history of the Indiana from the pre-territorial era through statehood, with a focus on the history of slavery. Topics include early French and Jesuit slaveholders, Church justifications for slavery, Black involvement in Revolutionary War, Little Africa near Paoli, Northwest Territory Ordinance of 1787 that allowed capture of fugitive slaves, slaveholding governors William Henry Harrison and Thomas Posey, relationship of American Indians and Black people, and black codes embodied in new state Constitution.
Spaulding, William, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017, Smith, Dwight, Anderson, Paulette
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Bill Spaulding hosts an anniversary program with Sister Jane Schilling, Paulette Anderson and Dwight Smith that recaps previous programs with the focus primarily on the early history of African Americans in Indiana. Topics include small Black communities not recorded in history, Colonial period, slavery, Ben Ishmaelites, underground railroad, Black participation in wars, and a commentary on contemporary artists and writers.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017, Johnson, Paul
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling and Paul Johnson about the history of slavery and discrimination in Indiana, with an emphasis on specific laws. Topics include Indiana territory laws that violated those of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787; the regulation of bonds, punishments and boundaries for the enslaved; attitudes incorporated into the new state Constitution such as exclusion from voting rights and military eligibility; revised Constitution of 1851, Article 13 that excluded Black people from settling in Indiana; sundown laws; how the 1969 Stop and Frisk Law was unevenly applied to Black people; and how to move from oppression to reconciliation.
Gardner, Mynelle., Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling and Mynelle Gardner about the effects of television on Black children given the way current programs portray Black families. Topics include the ways TV violence and focus on ghetto environments shapes children’s self-perception and actions, importance of parental oversight, effects on White children and community through perpetuation of stereotypes, and the exclusion of coverage of Black contributions.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017, Johnson, Paul
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling and Paul Johnson about the history of the Indiana Territory, with a focus on slavery. Topics include Northwest Territory laws, Indian treaties, attitudes of Abraham Lincoln and William Henry Harrison, and the state population at the time which included slaveholders from Virginia, free and enslaved Black people, American Indians and Quakers.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin and Sister Jane Schilling discuss the publication of the first issue of the Afro-American Journal published by the Martin Center, the history of Black newspapers in Indianapolis, the rationale for starting a new journal, an overview of the journal’s focus on Black history and topics of forthcoming articles.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling about interracial marriage, its history, and how it has affected Black people in the State of Indiana. Topics include miscegenation during slavery, the Barkshire vs. IN case in 1854, efforts to prohibit and penalize interracial marriage between a White person and another person who was at least 1/8 Black, and the 1965 change to Indiana laws that finally allowed interracial marriage.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin continues a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling about Black codes in Indiana that restricted the freedom of African Americans. Topics include the 1803 Indiana law specifying that Negroes and Mulattos entering the state had to leave when their contracts were up, politicians’ views toward slavery, selective enforcement of laws, statistics on enslaved people in Indiana, and the need to change mindsets through conscious education and action for change.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling about education and the Black child, including the importance of learning from Black people about language, culture, and history. Other topics include corporal punishment and teachers’ cultural deficits, programmed failure, curriculum and culturally biased tests, low expectations, recommendations for curricular change, and a call for Black people to create their own educational system.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin and Sister Jane Schilling discuss the Black codes in Indiana, including legal restrictions that limited the freedom of Black people as well as the lack of enforcement of anti-slavery laws and requirements for statehood. They conclude that challenges to the intellectual capacity of people of color were used to support most of the Black code laws and still persist today.
Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017, Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling about the history and treatment of Black soldiers in the United States, including Crispus Attucks and his role in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Indian wars, Buffalo soldiers in WWI, and the Mexican campaign of 1916. They also address the question of whether or not wars ever advance the cause of freedom.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling about the role of religion in African American communities. Topics include the historic role of Christianity in slavery and the oppression of Black people, Frederick Douglass’s condemnation of mainstream Christians, Fr. Hardin’s experience as a Black seminarian, different forms of Christianity available to White and Black people, interest in Islam, interpreting St. Paul, failure of Church and America to deal with racism, how to reverse these issues through an examination of the past and acting justly, and thoughts on the reconciliation of Black and White Christians.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling about the concept of racism and its ramifications. Topics include the distinction between intra-racism and inter-racism, differences between Black and White inter-racism, White people holding power to oppress, addressing racism and stereotypes through self-examination, the concept of institutional racism, the need for Americans to reconcile within and across racial lines, and the role of the Martin Center.
In the first of the 4-part series, Reflections in Black, Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Anita Louise Hill (St. Louis University), Marie Michael (student at Cardinal Ritter High School), Sister Marguerite Wiley (Sisters of St. Joseph of Tipton, IN), and Marsha Hutchins (teacher at Indianapolis School 110) about the life and work of Frederick Douglass. Topics include the Douglass-Garrison debate and Douglass’s Fourth of July speech, selections from other speeches, the application of his work to current problems such as school segregation and women’s rights, his anti-slavery newspaper The North Star, and the poem “Frederick Douglass” by Robert Hayden.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling on the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the law’s effects on Indiana. Topics include a brief history of fugitive slave laws and the Dred Scott decision, efforts to resist enforcement of the law, role of slaveholder and Indiana Senator Jesse Bright in supporting law, influence of media, and Neil’s Creek Anti-Slavery Society.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling on the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the law’s effects on Indiana. Topics include newspaper accounts of reactions of Indiana citizens to law, the Freeman Case of 1853, ways of discouraging slavecatchers from working in Indiana, and conflicted attitudes in Indiana about slavery.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin and Sister Jane Schilling host this session and tell the story of the kidnapping of Horace Bell, the son of a New Albany, Indiana family that was active in the underground railroad. His kidnap by Kentucky officials in 1858 sparked discussions of state rights and the possibility of a civil war. As an aside to the discussion of communication between the two states, Father Hardin speaks on communication, language, and symbols within the black community.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling on the book A Brief History of the Negro in Anderson, Indiana by James Warren Bailey. After talking about the book’s contents and authors, the hosts discuss the history of Anderson, Indiana and Black families in the town. They focus on Black jobs, churches, businesses, and intellectual organizations in the town, calling it the “Anderson Renaissance.”
Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Mrs. Mynelle Gardner, who previously served as coordinator of Black Affairs at the Martin Center, about her thoughts on Black women and the Women’s Liberation Movement. Gardner believes the movement does not speak to Black women, and goes on to discuss the relationship between Black men and Black women, the need to create a balance between homemakers and careers, the role of education, the role of a Black woman at the Democratic Convention, White society using Black women and not elevating Black men, mutuality in marriage and the sharing of domestic chores, and the future of Black women and their ability to reach their goals.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling on the current recession and how it impacts the Black community. The hosts discuss unemployment, the recession’s impact on health and diet, the importance of education, and community-oriented approaches to remedying unemployment.
Sister Jane Schilling narrates a brief history of labor in the United States from the founding of the country to post-WWII. She describes the struggles of different groups, including African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and Mexican-American migrant workers. She describes the violent outcomes of unionizing and striking, as well as the development of labor laws in the US.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling about the history of Indiana Black soldiers in the Spanish American war. Topics include yellow journalism, coverage in Black newspapers The Freeman and Indianapolis World, promotion of racial affinity with Cuba, Indiana Black militia, racism and the refusal of government to accept Black officers, troops joining Black regiment in Kentucky, war ending before Indiana’s Black troops mobilized, impact on move toward integrated army.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane on Abraham Lincoln and his stance on slavery. This session, the first of two episodes on Abraham Lincoln, describes Lincoln’s early years in Kentucky and Indiana, his political career, and his canonization as an anti-slavery activist by Americans. The hosts analyze Lincoln’s stance on slavery, quoting his speeches and the speeches of his political opponent Stephen Douglas.
Father Boniface Hardin narrates slides about the history of the Black man beginning with the rise of early humans in Africa. He dispels myths regarding African peoples before describing the slave trade to America. He describes the life of a slave in America and the role that Blacks played in the Revolutionary War. Fr. Hardin describes their involvement in the development of the country, their employment, and their struggles for equality in recent years.
Father Boniface Hardin narrates slides about the history of the Black man beginning with the rise of early humans in Africa. He dispels myths regarding African peoples before describing the slave trade to America. He describes the life of a slave in America and the role that Blacks played in the Revolutionary War. Fr. Hardin describes their involvement in the development of the country, their employment, and their struggles for equality in recent years.
Father Boniface Hardin narrates slides about the history of the Black man beginning with the rise of early humans in Africa. He dispels myths regarding African peoples before describing the slave trade to America. He describes the life of a slave in America and the role that Blacks played in the Revolutionary War. Fr. Hardin describes their involvement in the development of the country, their employment, and their struggles for equality in recent years.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane on the damaging impact of testing, specifically IQ tests and educational achievement tests, on Black people. They discuss the cultural bias present in all testing, and the ways in which test results influence self-image. The hosts also speak on comparisons between Black and whites through testing and the role of linguistic difference in testing.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane on Christmas and the Afro-American. The hosts begin by discussing the historical connection between Blacks and Christianity. They then discuss the commercialization and distortion of the holiday. Fr. Hardin focuses specifically on the white figure of Santa Claus and how holiday figures should be adapted to better suit the needs of certain communities.
Sister Jane Schilling narrates a brief history of labor in the United States from the founding of the country to post-WWII. She describes the struggles of different groups, including African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and Mexican-American migrant workers. She describes the violent outcomes of unionizing and striking, as well as the development of labor laws in the US.
A discussion between unidentified host (William Spaulding?) and William Chaney, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana. Chaney describes the history and naming of the Klan, its current activities and political involvement, and its connections to Indiana. William also describes the racial ideology of the Klan and his opinion on Zionism.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Smith, Earnest A. (Earnest Andrew), Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling and Dr. Earnest Smith, Associate General Secretary of the General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church and founding member of Black Methodists for Church Renewal. Topics include James Forman’s Black Manifesto, Christianity and racism, resistance to reparations, integration of Methodist church conferences, Black theology and changing role of ministry, Smith’s role during Civil Rights Movement, his tenure as President of Rust College in Mississippi, role of historically Black colleges and universities, and lack of HBCU’s in Indiana.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling about the role of religion in African American history. Topics include African religious practices, using Christianity to justify slavery, teaching respect for all religions, St. Peter Claver as the patron of Black Catholics, linking the song “Amazing Grace” to slave ships, mainstream religion not actively promoting in Black liberation, and the bias of the Catholic Church.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a third discussion with Sister Jane on the Fugitive Slave Law in Indiana. The hosts begin by discussing Fugitive Slave Law cases of captured individuals in Indiana, including white people. Fr. Hardin describes a visit he had to Roberts Settlement and the importance of Blacks in Indiana knowing and taking pride in their history.
Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Mary Ordner (teacher at Holy Angels), Sr. Marie Celine (school administrator in Maryland), Lorraine Shirley (married student and mother), and Larry Philippi (UPS employee) about the life and work of W.E.B. DuBois. Topics include his education, founding of the NAACP, teaching career, and the organizations and issues DuBois both supported and opposed.
Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Nia Louise Hill (St. Louis University graduate student in social work), Marie Michael (student at Cardinal Ritter High School), Sister Marguerite Wiley (Sisters of St. Joseph of Tipton, IN), and Marsha Hutchins (teacher at School 110, Indianapolis). The group talks about common strains in Black poetry and music from Africa to the present, African and African American folktales, how plantation life destroyed Black culture, White appropriation of Black music, and Black dance.
Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Bill Spaulding, assistant director of the Martin Center, about the role of the Black male in contemporary culture. Topics include victimization, mentorship, both good and poor role models in films and television including Bill Cosby and Flip Wilson, impact of the film Book of Numbers starring Raymond St. James and D’Urville Martin, and Black leadership in Bahamas.
Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Terry Bonner, a recent graduate of Manual High School in Indianapolis, about challenges facing Black youth. They talk about high school education often not a good preparation for college, necessity of learning standard English for job placement, lack of education in Black history topics including Civil Rights Movement, and the role of Martin Center’s Afro-American Journal in filling this gap.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Spaulding, William, Gardner, Mynelle., Bonner, Terry
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion about the Black family with Mynelle Garder, a housewife; Terry Bonner, a recent graduate; and Bill Spaulding, Assistant Director at the Martin Center. The group talks about the diversity of Black family units, morality as a culturally defined term, effects of racism and oppression, materialism, education, and fields most open to Black employment.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling about historians who have informed the work of the Martin Center in Indianapolis, including themselves, as well as Dr. Gossie Hudson, Lincoln University; John Hardin, Kentucky; Sr. Francesca Thompson, Marian College; Mary Elizabeth Gibson, Indianapolis; and archivists at Indiana State Library.
Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Brother Paul Johnson, of the Martin Center, on the impact of drugs in the Black community. Johnson, who went through rehab as a young man before becoming a drug counselor, talks about the definition of drug abuse, local treatment programs, prevention measures, police, dealers, gender issues and questions regarding legalization.
Hardin, Father Boniface, Orgler, Mary, Shirley, Lorraine, Philippi, Larry
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with a panel of guests including Mary Orgler, Lorraine Shirley, Larry Philippi and Sister Marie Celine about resources for the Black community in Indianapolis. Highlighted resources include those that benefit Black youth, the Black family, and community educators.
Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Terry Bonner, a young Black man from the Martin Center, to gain a perspective on Black youth in Indianapolis. Terry shares his and his peers’ thoughts on going to college, struggles within the classroom, Black English, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Afro-American Journal.
Hardin, Father Boniface, Johnson, Paul, Williams, Denise, Cole, Gerald
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Paul Johnson and two staff members from Cognition House: Denise Williams and Gerald Cole. They describe Cognition House’s mission and the process of getting help for an addicted individual. The group discusses drug use as a “cop out,” how to prevent drug addiction, the use of drugs among Black people, and drug addiction as a sickness.
Spaulding, William, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017, Hill, Anita Louise
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Bill Spaulding hosts this session on the Underground Railroad in Hendricks County, Indiana with Sister Jane and Sister Anita, a graduate student. They discuss the Fugitive Slave Law and the development of the Underground Railroad, as well as the role that the Hendricks County line played as a backup route for the Indianapolis line. Sister Jane and Sister Anita describe the Anti-Slavery league in Indiana and the individuals and homes in Hendricks County that played notable roles in the Underground Railroad.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Hill, Anita Louise, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts a discussion with Sister Jane and Sister Anita on histories of the Black man in Indiana. They begin by discussing contemporary scholars, what makes a good history, notably their attention to factuality and interpretation, before analyzing a history written by Earl E. McDonald in the 1930s. The group discusses the history’s factuality, omissions, and McDonald’s position as a historian.
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.