INDIANAPOLIS — “Indiana’s African American Heritage: More Essays from Black History News & Notes, 2007 to 2017” is the latest release from the Indiana Historical Society (IHS) Press, and it chronicles Indiana’s Black heritage.
Since its first release in October 1979, the IHS newsletter “Black History News & Notes” chronicled the role and contributions of Hoosier African Americans. Under the editorship of the late Wilma Gibbs Moore for many years, the quarterly publication included articles, book reviews and other pieces aiming to generate interest in and research about Indiana’s Black heritage.
Beginning in 2007 and until 2017, “Black History News & Notes” was a regular feature in the IHS’s popular history magazine, “Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History.” The new book, “Indiana’s African American Heritage: More Essays from Black History News & Notes, 2007 to 2017,” will be a companion to the 1993 volume. It includes articles that appeared in “Traces” during that decade, and includes articles on African American soldiers in World War I; Hoosier baseball great Oscar Charleston; the Underground Railroad in southern Indiana; architect William Wilson Cooke; the creation of Gary, Indiana’s Roosevelt High School; Indiana University basketball star Bill Garrett; and Black artists.
“Indiana’s African American Heritage: More Essays from Black History News & Notes, 2007 to 2017” is available through IHS’s Basile History Market and other places books are sold. Made possible by a generous grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc. For more information about the book or the IHS Press, call (317) 232-1882 or visit www.indianahistory.org.