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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
Summary:
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.
Spaulding, William, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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William Spaulding hosts a discussion with Sister Jane Schilling about Center Township in Indianapolis, which has the highest percentage of Black people in the city. Topics include White flight, demographics, Black median income, inflated rent and food costs, unemployment and underemployed, community underserved by agencies, and the difficulties faced by Black people who wish to adopt children.
Bill Spaulding hosts a discussion with Mike Garrett and Jack Smith, members of a class at Martin Center, who relate what they have learned about Black history in Indiana and their frustrations in finding resources about important Black men in the state. Also joining the program is Calvin Mitchell, who discusses the history of the Union for Black Identity (UBI), at Marian College in Indianapolis.
Spaulding, William, Schilling, Jane Edward, 1930-2017
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William Spaulding and Sister Jane Schilling discuss the ratification of the 15th Amendment in Indiana and the history of Black voter suppression. Topics include the Ku Klux Klan, role of both the Republican and Democratic parties, enslavers among Indiana legislators, the Black vote and election of FDR, and special elections protested as illegal.
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 Martin Center Institute of Afro-American Studies’ initiatives including programming and publications, exhibits, workshops, promotion of the Black family, leadership training and education.
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 Black settlements throughout Indiana in the early 19th century with a primary focus on Lyles Station in Gibson County. Topics include the Underground Railroad, the Hardiman and Cole families, the 1910 Princeton Brass Band, and the first colored school in Gibson County.
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
Summary:
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 the Black man in Indiana, why the topic should be of interest, the need for new interpretive work done by Black people, and the role of the Martin Center in the dissemination of information.
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 recent Christmas program presented by the Martin Center. Topics include efforts to help Black children identify with Christmas including Black Santa Claus and puppet show, as well as the commitment of the Martin Center’s Institute for African American Studies to the Black family.
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
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.
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
Summary:
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.