From The Indianapolis Star, Tuesday, March 16, 1926: By a vote of 5 to 1, the Indianapolis City Council passed an ordinance last night prohibiting establishment of homes by Negroes or white persons in districts inhabited principally by persons of opposite color except with consent of a majority of property owners in the communities concerned. Councilor Austin Todd sponsored the resolution on behalf of the White People’s Protective League. Nearly one thousand spectators packed the council chamber and enthusiastically shouted and cheered at the passage of the ordinance. After casting the “no” vote, Democrat Councilor Edward Raub said, “I don’t think this Council has the power under the law to put such an ordinance into effect. The Council is limited under the law, let alone the constitutionality of the question.” Later, Mayor John Duvall signed the segregation ordinance into law.