The Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites will create a hands-on, immersive experience about legendary African American cyclist Marshall “Major” Taylor. The exhibit will feature a 1900-era locker room, a bicycle shop that demonstrates how bike design impacts performance, and three trophies Taylor won overseas. Visitors will be able to assemble bicycles and participate in an animated race. The museum will collaborate with The Indianapolis Public Library’s Center for Black Literature and Culture, US Bicycling Hall of Fame, Bike Indianapolis, and Central Indiana Bicycling Association.
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For writers and poets, Knight is claimed as an Indianapolis author of five collections of poetry that remain influential through generations. His subjects â Black art and experience in America, the importance of family, the rewards of artistic expression â are as relevant today as they were when he was writing. He was a champion of poetry and its transformative power. Heâs the author who famously declared, âI died in Korea from a shrapnel wound, and narcotics resurrected me. I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.â He died in Indianapolis in 1991 and is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery.Â