Jo Otremba receives Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowship
We are excited to celebrate with Archives graduate student Jo Otremba (they/them) in their receipt of an Indiana Humanities Wilma ...
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IU Football, Preston E. Eagleson, and the 1885 Civil Rights Act
The Eagleson family has been in the local news lately, with the renaming of Jordan Avenue through campus for the ... -
From the Arkansas Delta to Indiana University Administration: The Charlie Nelms Papers, 1967-2016
Charlie Nelms is an unparalleled force in higher education. From his early days as a graduate student at Indiana University ... -
Eddie Whitehead: Breaking I.U.’s Color Barrier in Baseball
Throughout 2019, Major League Baseball will honor the centennial of Jackie Robinson’s birth. Robinson made history in 1947 when he ... -
Diversity in the Historical Record – The Dean of Faculties records
African Americans are often underrepresented in American archival collections, a fact which the archival profession acknowledges. In her 2012 article “The ... -
Sincerely Yours: Byron Armstrong Denounces Labeling
“Any practice which tends to divide off American citizens is certainly inconsistent with progressive democratic ideals, and must pass.” It’s ... -
Remembering Elbert F. Cox: African American Excellence in Mathematics
Throughout IU’s history, there have been countless examples of greatness and outstanding achievement by its African American students. It is ... -
Charles DeBow: an Original Tuskegee Pilot
“…I’m flying for every one of the 12,000,000 Negroes in the United States. I want to prove that we can ... -
An update on “Miss Carrie”
It’s difficult to even know where to begin. On July 24, I posted “A previously unknown IU pioneer,” detailing how ... -
A previously unknown IU pioneer
So this past week I had one of those moments at work where I was reminded that: I was spending ...