Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century

Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth CenturyEmma Lou ThornbroughEdited and with a final chapter by Lana RuegamerSequel to Thornbroug's early groundbreaking study of African Americans.Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century is the long-awaited sequel to Emma Lou Thornbrough's classic study The Negro in Indiana before 1900. In this posthumous volume, Thornbrough (1913–1994), the acknowledged dean of black history in Indiana, chronicles the growth, both in numbers and in power, of African Americans...