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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.
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 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.
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
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In session 34 of the Afro-American in Indiana, host Rev. Boniface Hardin and featured guest Sister Jane Schilling discuss the Declaration of Independence in relation to African Americans in Indiana. Topics covered in this program focus on the condition of Black slaves in Indiana during the late 1700s, Black people in Vincennes, Fort Wayne and other cities welcoming the Northwest Ordinance, varying responses to history of Black people by African Americans, reactions to the Declaration of Independence and Northwest Ordinance, the Declaration of Independence as an example of difference between statements and everyday practice, Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech on Fourth of July as an occasion for mourning to slaves, the importance and meaning of the Fourth of July, laws about registration, travel, and other actions similar to laws in south and laws about Indians. Major figures discussed include Governor William Henry Harrison, Roger Taney, and President Abraham Lincoln.
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.
Moderator: Percy Sutton (President, Borough of Manhattan). Panelists: Dr. Vivian Henderson (President, Clark College, Atlanta, GA); Dr. Dick Netzer (Professor of Public Finance at New York University); Mr. Robert Theobold (writer and economist); Osborn Elliott (Editor, Newsweek).
Sutton, Percy E., Kozol, Jonathan, Shapiro, Dr. Elliott, Elliott, Osborn
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Moderator: Percy Sutton (President, Borough of Manhattan). Panelists: Jonathan Kozol (author, Death of an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro in Boston Public Schools); Dr. Elliott Shapiro (Asst. Superintendent, NYC Public Schools); Osborn Elliott (Editor, Newsweek).
Part 11 in the series: Afro-American in Indiana. Host Dwight Smith and featured guest Rev. Boniface Hardin discuss Black physicians after the Reconstruction era, Black experiences with hospitals, motivations of Black people entering the field of law and medicine, the National Medical Association for Black physicians separate from White society, and medical training for Black physicians at Howard University and Meharry Medical College. Smith and Hardin discuss major Black physicians such as Dr. Wesley Robins, Dr. Samuel Elbert, Dr. Henry Furniss, Dr. Sumner Furniss, Dr. Mary E. Hyatt, Dr. Frank Lloyd, Dr. Raymond Pierce, among others.
Moderator: Percy Sutton (President, Borough of Manhattan). Panelists: Elmer Young, Jr. (Administrative Director, Opportunities Industrialization Center); Berkeley G. Burrell (President, National Negro Business League); Raymond Brown (Vice President, Freedom National Bank, NYC); Osborn Elliott (Editor, Newsweek).
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.
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.
Hardin, Boniface, 1933-2012, Gardner, Mynelle, Spaulding, William, Bonner, Terry
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Father Boniface Hardin hosts part two of a discussion with Mynelle Garder, Terry Bonner and Bill Spaulding about the Black family. The primary focus is on education and employment opportunities, including family economics, the types of education available and whether an academic education is necessary, racism in the workplace, and the importance of mentoring, motivation and commitment.
Sutton, Percy E., Lindsay, John V. (John Vliet), McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991, Young, Whitney M., Elliott, Osborn
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Moderator: Percy Sutton (President, Borough of Manhattan). Panelists: Hon. John V. Lindsay (Mayor, City of New York); Floyd McKissick (National Chairman, CORE); Whitney Young (Executive Director, National Urban League); Osborn Elliott (Editor, Newsweek).
Classroom lecture by Logan H. Westbrooks to students in Monika Herzig's "Music Industry II" course (SPEA A336) offered by Indiana University's Arts Administration Program. The lecture took place in Ballantine Hall 242. Note: the very beginning of Herzig's class introduction was not recorded. The lecture video available here was edited together from the camera footage.
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.
