Granger Black History

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Granger Black History

Black history at Granger and the Underground Railroad years.

Black History

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First families of record: the Black Laws, the county's first settlement, and the Powell freedom case
The community's own scholarship: Buford Gordon's 1922 study and the shelf it founded
Migration and the industrial ceiling, counted together — and Granger's different arrival
The Klan era: the guarded church, the county chapter, and a township test that returns nothing
Institutions built: Hering House, the NAACP branch, and the Allens' thirty years of cases
Exclusion measured in years: the Natatorium's fourteen and fourteen, the Kale test case, and the clubs on this ground
Redlining in writing: the HOLC sheets quoted, Colpaert named, sixty-eight plats counted — and the plat books named as the settler for this ground
Counter-moves, dated: separate defence housing, twenty-two couples in secret, a mapped district, and the March 1968 ordinance
Professions inside segregation: the doctors and nurses who practised inside the segregated hospitals, named
Schools as the long fight: from a ceiling's collapse to a decree still alive in 2025 — and the test of Penn-Harris-Madison
Unrest, firsts, the Black press, displacement counted — and the reparatory accounting, dated
The price of the rescue: $2,856 in damages, and the $500 penalty the Supreme Court took away
The law over their heads: Black Laws, Article XIII, and the 1851 exclusion vote — frame whole, county count a named gap
The antebellum Black community, counted and named: twenty-nine in the county, none on this ground — and that is a count, not a silence
The price of the rescue: Norris v. Newton and Norris v. Crocker, from the published reports
The law over their heads, whole: fugitive machinery, the Black Laws, Article XIII, and the register that does not survive for this county
The antebellum Black community counted: twenty-nine people, none in these townships, and the offers made to them

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Source: Granger Black History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/granger/topics/black-history/

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