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New Carlisle, Indiana · 20th century
1940s
2 dated events in 1940s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 2 dated mentions
1940s
- 1946–2026The Legion: Post 297, named for James W. Swanson
The post's federal record dates its exemption to March 1946, and its Auxiliary's to October 1946 — the organization of the Second World War's homecoming generation, keeping the First World War dead man's name.
- 1949Desegregation: The State Act, and a Tested None for This Corporation
The turn came in 1949, when Indiana's desegregation law — House Bill 242 — provided for "equal, non-segregated, non-discriminatory educational opportunities and facilities for all," and desegregation proceeded on a phased basis, a grade at a time; the United States Supreme Court's decision in Brown v.