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> BLACK___ HISTORY_____ _____ NEWS & NOTES FEBRUARY 2002 NUMBER 87 Colonel Eli Lilly Civil War Museum Announces Teacher Lesson Plans Susan Tomlinson Camp Fremont Jan. 6th, 1864 Dear Brother, I left Charlottsvill on the noon train Thursday... and we came into the city and we were accommadated very well as the people gave us our supper free o f charge. I was examined on New Years morning and passed a bully examination, and am good for 90 years if I don’t die in less time. The camp is undoubtedly a curiosity, because there are presented to the observer, every grade, shade, disposition, dialect, conduct, and some one always talking, singing, dancing... going on Teachers Linda Grimes and Susan Tomlinson display lesson almost all the time, you ought to plans for study of the role of Indiana African-American soldiers come sometime and see it. during the Civil War. To see all our boys, in the suit available in Indiana through a set of and medical care, and African- “dres parade ” dancing, with their lessons developed for the Colonel American Hoosiers in the Civil War. countless number of shining buttons Eli Lilly Civil War Museum at the Locating information on Hoosier which diffuses a magnificent lustre Indiana War Memorial in India African-American involvement in over the gloomy aspect o f the camp. napolis. the Civil War was challenging. Staff One year ago today I had no idea Funded by a grant from the at the Abraham Lincoln Library and that this time I would be a U.S. Lilly Endowment, through the Museum and at several Indiana soldier.... „ Governor’s Hoosier Heritage Foun repositories were very helpful. Ben dation, a series of lessons for el Linda Grimes wrote the lesson for Thus begins the correspondence ementary and secondary teachers elementary students. Students are of Benjamin Trail, Sargent Major of have been developed to provide in provided with a booklet called To the 28th United States Colored formation concerning the role of Be a Soldier: You Decide. Readers Troops (USCT). Born in Rush Hoosiers in the Civil War. Under are asked to put themselves in the County, Indiana, Trail joined the 28th the direction of David Buchanan, shoes of a young African-American USCT on 24 January 1864 at the age Museum Operations Director for the male in making choices concerning of 22. These lines are excerpted Indiana War Memorial, Linda issues such as enlisting in the army from the first of twenty letters writ Grimes, Museum Educator of Piqua, or navy, staying in school, moving ten by Trail to his family. The Ohio, and Susan Tomlinson, Social to Canada, accepting pay that was Abraham Lincoln Library and Mu Studies teacher at Franklin Town less than promised, and preparing seum at Lincoln Memorial Univer ship Middle School in Indianapolis, for battle. sity in Harrogate, Tennessee, own were contracted to research and de Susan Tomlinson compiled the the Trail Family Correspondence. velop five sets of lessons for teacher lessons for secondary students. De Several additional excerpts from use. Topics include: camp life, signed for use in 8th and 11th grade Benjamin Trail’s letters will be Indiana’s role, home life, hospitals (Continued on page 8) BHNN_2002-02_NO87 Index to Articles in Black History News & Notes (1995-2001) Compiled by Elizabeth Zellers ARMSTRONG, IRVEN Town Crier: Bill Garrett and the Language of Dear Sergeant Teacher: World War I Letters to Irven Democracy in the Postwar Indiana Press, by Rachel Armstrong, issue 85, pages 1,8. Cody, issue 84, pages 5-7. BANKS, BOLER B. GENEALOGY Boler B. Banks Biography Project, issue 67, page 2. African-American Genealogy Research, by Wilma L. Gibbs, issue 78, pages 6-8. BIOGRAPHY GRAY, MOSES W. Reference Sources: Researching African-American Biographical Materials, issue 66, pages 1-3. Moses William Gray Papers Donated, by Kisha Tandy, issue 75, pages 1-3. BROKENBURR, ROBERT L. INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Senator Robert L. Brokenburr: He Lived to Serve, by Stanley Warren, issue 83, pages 4-8. Indiana Historical Society to Open New Building, issue 76, pages 1-3. BROOKS, HARRY W., JR. INDIANA HISTORY Here Come the Generals, General Harry W. Brooks, Jr., Papers Donated, issue 84, pages 1-3. African-American Empowerment on the American Frontier, by Randy K. Mills, issue 79, pages 1-4, 8. BUCKNER, GEORGE W. Indiana Black History Challenge, issue 84, page 8. George Washington Buckner: Hoosier Physician, by Ronald L. Baker, issue 62, pages 4-6. The Indiana Colonization Movement, by Kisha Tandy, issue 69, pages 1-5, 8. CARTER, LAWRENCE B. INDIANA MID-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF Lawrence B. Carter Collection (Rush County), issue EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAMS 62, page 8. PERSONNEL CONN, HARRIETTE B. I-MAEOPP Collection, issue 60, pages 1, 8. Harriette Bailey Conn Papers Donated to Indiana INDIANAPOLIS HISTORY Historical Society, issue 70, pages 1-2, 8. Achievers Against the Odds: African Americans in DAVIS, JACKSON Indianapolis, 1917-1941, Part 1, by David MacLaren, Jackson Davis Collection, by Rebecca Yokum, issue issue 71, pages 3-8. 82, pages 7-8. Achievers Against the Odds: African Americans in DICKINSON, JESSE L. Indianapolis, 1917-1941, Part 2, by David MacLaren, Jesse L. Dickinson Collection, issue 67, pages 1-2. issue 72, pages 5-8. DuBOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT Blood and Race: Challenges to Blood Donor A Spiritual Entity Grown Wider, by Arthur S. Meyers, issue 68, pages 6-8. Black History News and Notes is a quarterly W.E.B. DuBois at Your Public Library, by Arthur S. publication of the Indiana Historical Society Library. Meyers, issue 65, pages 1,8. Intended in part to highlight the activities of the library’s EDUCATION Black History Program, it is issued during the months The Blessing of Education: Mid-Nineteenth Century of February, May, August, and November. Essential African-American Education in Indiana, by Marian to the Black History Program’s success is community Carpenter, issue 68, pages 1-5, 8. involvement and commitment to the study of Indiana’s African-American heritage. Along with Black History The History of the Indiana School Desegregation Law, News and Notes, membership also includes the (Henry J. Richardson, Jr.), issue 59, pages 1-4, 8. quarterly Indiana Magazine of History, published at FLOYD COUNTY Indiana University; The Bridge, the Indiana Historical Floyd County Court Records, compiled by Pamela Society’s bi-monthly newsletter; and many of the R. Peters, issue 76, pages 4-7. special publications as they are issued - all for only FREETOWN VILLAGE $35.00 a year. To become a member or for further information, write the Indiana Historical Society, 450 Freetown Village Research, Part 1, by Amy Glowacki, West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 (317) issue 63, pages 2-8. 232-1882. Correspondence concerning Black History Freetown Village Research, Part 2, by Amy Glowacki, News and Notes should be addressed to Wilma L. issue 64, pages 1, 4-8. Gibbs, Editor ([email protected]). GARRETT, WILLIAM L. 2 Discrimination in the Black Community of Indianapolis, A Glimpse of a Past: Lyles and Weaver Settlements, 1941-45, by David MacLaren, issue 67, pages 3-8. 1850-1860, by Linda Weintraut, issue 77, pages 1- Gone But Not Forgotten Reception, issue 80, pages 3-4. 3, 8. Indianapolis and the Great Migration, 1900-1920, by Past and Future Directions for the Study of Indiana’s Carolyn Brady, issue 65, pages 3-8. Black Rural Heritage, by Stephen A. Vincent, issue 80, pages 5-8. Self-Help in Indianapolis, by Richard Pierce, issue 60, pages 3-7. Updating the African and Native American Legends Toward a History of the Indianapolis African - in the Roberts Genealogy, by Coy D. Robbins, issue American Community, 1821-1980, by Monroe Little, 61, pages 3-7. issue 59, pages 5-7. Was Freedom Dead or Only Sleeping? The Pre-1870 KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. African-American Rural Communities of the Kankakee River Valley, by Terry Goldsworthy, issue Martin Luther King, Jr. in Indiana, by Stanley Warren, 70, pages 3-7. issue 73, pages 3-8. When Folklore Shrouds History, by Roger A. LINCOLN GARDENS Peterson, issue 64, pages 3,8. Museum at Lincoln Gardens, issue 71, page 2. SLAVERY LOGUEN, JERMAIN Side Steps to Compromise: Expansion and the Issue Sheltering a Famous Fugitive Slave, Part I, by Thomas of Slavery in the Old Northwest, by Richard A. A. Hendrickson, issue 85, pages 2-7. Enochs, issue 82, pages 4-6. Sheltering a Famous Fugitive Slave, Part II, by TAYLOR, MARSHALL WILLIAM “MAJOR” Thomas A. Hendrickson, issue 86, pages 3-8. Racing into History, issue 82, pages 1-3. MARION LYNCHING UNDERGROUND RAILROAD French Students Study Marion Lynching, issue 81, Assistance and Resistance: Fugitive Slaves and Free page 1. Blacks on the Underground Railroad, by David Marion Lynching (research in progress), issue 60, Roberts, issue 66, pages 4-8. page 8. Indiana Freedom Trails Selects New Logo, by Malia MONTGOMERY, WES Savarino, issue 82, page 7. “Probably a Thousand Cats Are Using Their Our Underground Railroad Trip, by Carol Becker and Thumbs”: A Brief Biographical Sketch of Wes Erika Blinks, issue 74, pages 6-7. Montgomery, by Andrew M. Mills, issue 86, pages Researching the Indiana Connection to the 1-2, 8. Underground Railroad, by Wilma L. Gibbs, issue 78, MYERS, WILLIAM M.S. pages 1-5. William M.S. Myers Papers Donated, issue 83, pages UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND 1-3. United Negro College Fund Collection, issue 80, NEWSPAPERS pages 1-2. Eyewitness to a Century: The Indianapolis Recorder, UNITED STATES -HISTORY-CIVIL WAR, by Wilma L. Gibbs, issue 79, pages 5-7. 1861-65 ORAL HISTORY Civil War Commemorations: Honoring the Forgotten, Home Videos in Words: African-American Oral by Wilma L.