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Carol Jenkins (October 19, 1947 - September 16, 1968) was an African-American woman who was murdered on September 16, 1968, by two white men in Martinsville, Indiana, a sundown town. Her murder remained unsolved for over thirty years until a tip led investigators to one of her murderers in the early 2000s.
Cayuga is located at the intersection of Indiana State Road 63 and Indiana State Road 234, in the northern half of the county, near the confluence of the Vermillion and Wabash rivers. According to the 2010 census, Cayuga has a total area of 1.01 square miles (2.62 km 2), all land. [10]
EVANSVILLE — A car crash claimed the life of a Warrick County, Indiana, student on Monday and left a second gravely wounded, prompting an accident investigation that could take several weeks to ...
The father of 9-year-old Alivia Stahl, who died last week during a bus stop accident in Indiana, spoke out about the tragedy during a Friday vigil.
In 1958, the committee solicited recipes from black women to publish a different kind of history—one that celebrated the collective works that characterized their community. [8] [11] Thurman compiled the recipes and published The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro, which not only gave recipes but included narratives on black history. [12]
Vigo County sheriff's deputies arrived on the scene of the single-vehicle accident in Riley, Indiana, at 1:34 a.m. Sunday. The accident happened about 15 minutes away from the university, which is ...
A mob of white Vigo County, Indiana, residents lynched George Ward, a black man, on February 26, 1901 in Terre Haute, Indiana, for the suspected murder of a white woman. An example of a spectacle lynching, the event was public in nature and drew a crowd of over 1,000 white participants. Ward was dragged from a jail cell in broad daylight ...
Whether you’re wanting to brush up on your Black history or are a full-on history buff looking for your next source of inspiration, you’re bound to discover something new. 1. Harriet Tubman ...