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A Chance to Reclaim the Historic Core of Black Indianapolis


When Black folks started fleeing the Jim Crow South at the start of the Great Migration, Indianapolis was one of the first places where they ended up. It was barely outside the South. When they got to Indianapolis, Black folks started some of the first urban farms, formed housing cooperatives and started grocery stores. They were so industrious and successful, when Madam C.J. Walker needed a place to scale up production of her famous hair products for Black women, she came to Indianapolis right here to Indiana Avenue, where she moved her company headquarters in 1910.
For many decades, this stretch of Indiana Avenue was the one place in Indianapolis where Black folks could do business out loud. Jazz clubs and other Black-owned businesses ran all up and down the avenue, fueled in large part by the jobs from Walker’s company and others. ....

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