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THIS WEEK IN INDIANAPOLIS
1925
news stories & adverts from one hundred years ago
Compiled by Steve Barnett
Ads & Illustrations clipped by Carl Bates
Council Limits Home Residence
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 pac
Mar 16


Throng Watches Klansmen March Through Streets
From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, May 25, 1924: An orderly procession of white robed and masked Ku Klux Klanmen, led by 100 robed and...
May 25, 2024


Views Expressed on Race Problem
From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, January 1, 1924: Equality of opportunity for all races and opposition to war as a denial of...
Jan 1, 2024


Big Crowds Attends Fair as Sun Shines
From The Indianapolis Times, Friday, September 7, 1923: The Ku Klux Klan unofficially declared today “Klan Day” at the Indiana State...
Sep 7, 2023


'Cu Clux' Stirs War Mothers
From The Indianapolis Times, Tuesday, March 27, 1923: Rev. Daisy Douglass Barr, president of the Indiana War Mothers, resigned last...
Mar 27, 2023


Klan is Denounced as a Menace to Liberty
From The Indianapolis News, Friday, January 26, 1923: A resolution condemning the Ku Klux Klan was adopted yesterday by the council of...
Jan 26, 2023


Ku Klux Klan Leader Admits Active Work in Indianapolis
From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, March 31, 1921: Organizers for the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan have been working several weeks in...
Mar 31, 2021
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