If you follow my blog, you know how many key family history moments I've located in the Indianapolis Recorder.
When this paper started 120 years ago, it was a local newspaper that manifested itself into a key piece of African American history.I've been lucky enough to find some of my family and so many other distant relatives I didn't know about until reading the Recorder.
The stories captured in this paper are phenomenal. It's like stepping into a time machine and the coolest thing about it is now, IUPUI has begun to digitize as many issues as they have been able to come across.
100 years ago, a copy of the Recorder was delivered to your home for a nickel.
An inspiration for many of my blog post, the Indianapolis Recorder is full of stories, not just about local Hoosiers, but I've found some of my Kentucky relatives in this paper as well.
This clip is from August 7, 1915.
1. A story about a black mayor who was arrested for shooting another man.
2. A story about a park I grew up playing in-now know as Watkins Park. An annual picnic was been held there for older black women to honor and raise money for them.
From obituaries to stories about recognition, this paper will continue to be my first stop in searching for stories about my Hoosier relatives.
