Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1960 — Page 13
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1863 ..Congratulations To Our Many Friends.. 1960
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fcen.inel, to editorialize before the 1862 elections:' “If Aboil ionisn. (the Republicans> triumphs at the polls tomorrow our State will be flooded with Negroes, devouring our substance like the locusts of Egypt.” But despite prejudice and numerous acts of violence against Negroes, the immigration increased and some improvements in the Negro’s status came about. The most important was aeceptanee in the state’s forces fighting in the war. As late as 18611 the 1 lousier slate still refused to use Negro troops, and Negroes throughout the North who wanted to fight for freedom joined the famed 54th Massachusetts, raised by Gov John Andrews of that state. “From the records of the Adjutant General it appears that 81 colored men from Indiana enlisted in the Massachusetts regiment in Apul and May, 1863 “ BUT FROM THAT time on pul>lic opinion changed rapidly, as the Negroes proved good soldiers and tbe supply of willing and able white volunteers ran low. One speaker at a Union rally observed: “There was much complaint " by Democra s about the armin of Negroes; yet when a draft «. was oiylcred. these men became so anxious to get ’Nc1 groes to take iheir places, that ^ they scoured, the whole country with bounty money in hand « and even tolled the Negroes 4 from Kentucky.’’ Soon the state government was Calling for Negro recruits, Marion County was offering a county bounly. and recruiting officers firom other sta'es were forbidden to operate within Hoosier boundaries. A total of between 800 and 1.537 Negro soldiers from Indiana ^served, out of a Negro population of 11,000 at the war’s beginning. MOST HOOSIFK. NEGROES strved in the 28th Regiment, United States Colored Troops, which trained at Camp Fremont southeast of Indianapolis. The 28th was oent, to Virginia and on June 21. 1804, took part in an encasement at White House. “After this they were sent with Sheridan’s calvary through the Chickuhominy swamps, guttering heavy losses from frequent skirmishes with the enemy.” The Indiana units partici- . pated in the entile campaign
of Gen. U. S. Grant before Petersburg, which resulted in the capture of Richmond and the final defeat of Lee. "The most deadly engagement in which they took part was <hc battle of ‘the Crater’ (huge hole in the Confederate works caused by- the explosion of a mine), in which nearly half of their number was killed or wounded.” Of this batlle an eyewitness, writing in the New York Post, said; “1 was never under such a terrific fire, and can hardly realize how any escaped alive.” After Lee’s surrender the 28th was stationed at Corpus Christi. Texas, until it was mustered out. A parade and official welcome in its honor was held in Indianapolis on | Jan. 6, 1866 “IN SPITE OF the part which i Negroes were playing in winning ! a Union victory, all the old legal discriminations against them remained in effect,” Dr. Thornbrough j concludes, “but the injustice of j such disabilities was increasingly recognized by white groups . . . “Indiana Negroes agreed with , their detractors that is thte result of the war they stood upon the : threshold of a new era . .They j rejoiced in the extinction of slavery, and as the result of the part | Which they had played in war,! they looked Toiyvard optimistically ! to opportunities .to assume new j lights and responsibilities in life postwar periodr*
THE LATE WALTER WHITE ... who was executive secretary of the NAACP from 1930-1955. and was among the group of Negro leaders, who presented to President Roosevelt a memorandum urging that discrimination be abolished in the Navy and Air Force ... He also authored a novel about lynching. The Fire in the Flint — A biography of Judge Lynch; Rope and Faggot and also the novel Flight.
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was organized through the efforts of A. Phillip Randolph in 1925.
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WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DuBOIS, who wrote the Souls of Black Folk, was born of African, French and Dutch ancestry in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868. the year of fhe emfranchise men! of the freedmen by tbe Fifteenth Amendment ... He was the first Negro to receive a Ph.D. degree from Harvard . . . and was one of the founders of the NAACP ... and the first editor of Crisis magazine.
John Brown, the martyr (1800-1859) was horn on May 9.
THE REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. who rose to world fame through his preachments of passive resistance in the Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott. “Wefwlll not resort to violence” . . . “We will not degrade ourselves with hatred . . . Love will be returned for hate,” declared the great crusader . . . Along with 100 other Negroes, the young minister was indicted and sentenced to 386 days at hard labor . *. . The name of Martin Luther King will ring out loud and clear down through the ages.
JUDGE WILLIAM H. HASTIE of the U. S. Court of Appeals (Philadelphia) for the Third Circuit . . . is a former Virgin Islands governor . . . and former chief counsel for the NAACP . . . Judge Hastie, who makes his home in Yeadon, Delaware county, is considered one of the top legal minds in the nation. A product of Talladega, Howard and Harvard Universities, he was the first Negro judge of a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL
CONGRESSMAN ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR., pastor of the largest Baptist Church in the world, Abyssinia, (N. Y.) is in line for the chairmanship of the important House Education and Labor Committee. On the basis <i fhe House senior! y rules Powell will assume the chairman ship if its present head. Rep. Graham A. Barden <I>>, N. C.. sticks to his plans of not running for reelection in November
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