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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.
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.
Gardner, Mynelle., Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
Summary:
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.
In session 35 of the Afro-American in Indiana, host Rev. Boniface Hardin and featured guest Sister Jane Schilling discuss Black Codes and laws in Indiana with the laws in the South. Topics covered in this program focus on the Alabama Code defining slaves and freemen, the 1808 Code in Indiana Territory, the creation of Northwest Ordinance that prohibits slavery but speaks in terms of freemen, systems of taxation in Indiana requires listing of slaves with other property, definition of mixed race people, effect of codes on both master and slave, fierce determination of Black people to survive and contribute to nation, “The Insurgent” poem by Mari Evans, dream of discrimination being past history.
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.
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 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.