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The Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association and the Fight THE BUTLER-TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND THE FIGHT AGAINST RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION IN INDIANAPOLIS Lydia Anne Prebish Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in the Department of History, Indiana University July 2021 Accepted by the Graduate Faculty of Indiana University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. Master's Thesis Committee ______________________________________ Anita Morgan, Ph.D., Chair ______________________________________ Paul Mullins, Ph.D. ______________________________________ Nancy Marie Robertson, Ph.D. ii © 2021 Lydia Anne Prebish iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would first like to thank my chair, Dr. Morgan, for her patience, enthusiasm, and consistent support throughout this project. I am also grateful for my committee members, Dr. Mullins and Dr. Robertson, whose insights and edits helped polish my research. Special thanks is owed to Callie McCune and Jordan Ryan for their early suggestion of a topic that led to this paper, and their inclusion of me in scholarship and research on redlining in Indiana. I also wish to thank Evan Miller, Special Collections Associate for the archives at Butler University, for his assistance in research and continued support of my project this past year. I also owe special thanks to Dr. George Geib, professor emeritus of history at Butler University, for sharing his scholarship and history of Butler- Tarkington and the neighborhood association. I am grateful for all my professors, my mentors, and my family, whose unceasing encouragement helped me arrive where I am today. iv Lydia Anne Prebish THE BUTLER-TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND THE FIGHT AGAINST RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION IN INDIANAPOLIS The Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association (BTNA) is a community group organized in 1956 by a few concerned couples living in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood on the north side of Indianapolis. These couples, both Black and white, witnessed a demographic change in their community as their white neighbors fled for the suburbs as the black population expanded. The BTNA, inspired to create an organization that would promote residential integration rather than continued segregation, worked to educate neighbors on the realities of integration, promote neighborhood conversation and comradery, and worked to influence the local and state governments on the impact of segregation that harmed their community. One of the first neighborhood organizations of its kind in the country, the BTNA still exists today, but little is known about their early history. This paper looks at the BTNA’s efforts to promote residential segregation in their community through activism, conversation, and legislative change. Additionally, this paper analyzes the BTNA success in its efforts to integrate the community during their first decade of existence. Anita Morgan, PhD, Chair v TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures ................................................................................................................... vii Introduction …. ....................................................................................................................1 A Brief History of Residential Segregation .........................................................................7 A Closer Look at Indianapolis and Segregation ................................................................16 Flight to the Suburbs ..........................................................................................................20 History of the BTNA .........................................................................................................23 Bibliography ......................................................................................................................46 Curriculum Vitae vi LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. “Copy of Newspaper With Handwritten Note.” Richardson Family Home on 4150 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Ind., 1954-55, n.d., Box 8, Folder 11. Roselyn Comer Richardson Papers, 1900-1997. Indiana Historical Society, 1993.0236. .................3 Figure 2. “Sketch of Second Floor.” Richardson Family Home on 4150 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Ind., 1954-55, n.d., Box 8, Folder 11. Roselyn Comer Richardson Papers, 1900-1997. Indiana Historical Society, 1993.0236. ................................................4 Figure 3. "Indianapolis Map." Robert K. Nelson, LaDale Winling, Richard Marciano, Nathan Connolly, et al., “Mapping Inequality,” American Panorama, ed. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers,https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=10/39.787/- 86.474&city=indianapolis-in. ............................................................................................14 Figure 4. "A1 Area Description." Robert K. Nelson, LaDale Winling, Richard Marciano, Nathan Connolly, et al., “Mapping Inequality,” American Panorama, ed. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers,https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=10/39.787/- 86.474&city=indianapolis-in&area=A1&adview=full&adimage=1/40/-154.426. ...........15 Figure 5. "Map: The Butler-Tarkington Area and Points of Interest." Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association, Articles of Incorporation and History, Box 1 Folder 1. ..................................................................................................................25 Figure 6. “Butler-Tarkington Newsletter, September 1960.” No. 1. Butler-Tarkington Neighborhoods Association Newsletters 1960-1963 Folder 1. .........................................31 vii Introduction In 1956, Roselyn Richardson and her real-estate agent entered a home on North Illinois Street in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood, just north of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. As Mrs. Richardson walked through the house, she would stop to sketch floorplans, noting individual details about the character of the house and its potential. On May 11, a Friday, Roselyn wrote in her personal appointment calendar: “Bought a beautiful home today—so excited I am about to burst—can’t tell anybody yet.”1 The reason behind the Richardson’s secrecy was not the usual desire for privacy, but rather because the Richardsons were Black, and they were moving into a historically white-exclusive neighborhood. Roselyn had been able to tour the home in the first place only because of her light skin. She could “pass” as white, and their realtor was willing to risk their license to help the family find a home.2 A collection of Roselyn’s documents are housed at the Indiana Historical Society archives, and tucked within the folder about the home purchase is a handwritten comment on a sticky note, where Roselyn had later reflected “we weren’t trying to stop ‘racism’—just needed more room for our family.”3 Regardless of whether the Richardsons were attempting to “stop” racism or not, their family’s move was part of 1 Calendar 1956, Box 9, Folder 6, Roselyn Comer Richardson Papers, 1900-1997, 1993.0236, Indiana Historical Society. 2 Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: Black People Passing in White America (Cambridge: Harvard University, 2016). “Passing” has a complicated history. It has historically described when a person of multiracial ancestry appeared or presented themselves as white. For some, passing meant using their visual appearance to circumvent instances of racial segregation and discrimination, and for others it meant fully assimilating into the white majority. 3 Richardson Family Home N. Illinois Street, Box 8, Folder 11, Roselyn Comer Richardson Papers, 1900-1997, 1993.0236, Indiana Historical Society. 1 a larger effort that played a part in the establishment of the Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association, one of the first neighborhood organizations in the nation intended to promote residential integration. 2 Figure 1. “Copy of Newspaper With Handwritten Note.” Richardson Family Home on 4150 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Ind., 1954-55, n.d., Box 8, Folder 11. Roselyn Comer Richardson Papers, 1900-1997. Indiana Historical Society, 1993.0236. The photo shows a copy of the newspaper clipping featuring the listing for what would become the Richardson’s home in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood. Below the newspaper is a handwritten note from Roselyn, which reads “When we were looking at a house –a larger house with more yard! We weren’t trying to stop ‘racism’ just needed more room for our family. Finally found it at 4150 N. Illinois, a forbidden area for Black people.” 3 Figure 2. “Sketch of Second Floor.” Richardson Family Home on 4150 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Ind., 1954-55, n.d., Box 8, Folder 11. Roselyn Comer Richardson Papers, 1900- 1997. Indiana Historical Society, 1993.0236. Roselyn’s note reads: “In 1955—when we were searching for a new home—only one Courageous Jewish Realtor would show us whatever was listed. My light skin permitted me to do the looking--and then I had to write detailed reports for Rich (my husband) to see—also draw charts etc. ... No black people were ‘allowed’ by Real Estate Dealers to even ‘look at property east of Capitol Ave and north of 38th St -Neither were Bank loans and mortgages’” [continued on the back] “After a few weeks, calm, fair-minded folk decided that they liked this neighborhood too well to move because our family of black people had bought a home here—thus was formed the Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association to include old neighbors and welcome new ones of whatever color.” 4 Henry Richardson, Jr. and Roselyn Richardson
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