Photos: Justin provides some background on the Black Lives Matter Mural on Indiana Avenue (Justin's great grandfather lived on Agnes Street south of the Avenue, and two of his great aunts lived in Ransom Place on Camp and Pacca Streets)

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Justin provides some background on the Black Lives Matter Mural on Indiana Avenue (Justin's great grandfather lived on Agnes Street south of the Avenue, and two of his great aunts lived in Ransom Place on Camp and Pacca Streets)

Indiana Avenue was the heart of Indianapolis' Black community. The first map is from the 1938 'Negro Study' of Indianapolis. The black dots represented where there were Black households. The fill areas were commercial or community buildings, hatch areas apartments, all concentrated along Indiana Avenue, West Street, (now MLK) and North Street. The following aerial maps show how the areas was destroyed by urban renewal and taken over by the university (a lot of parking lots). They are from 1937, 1979 (year I was born), 1986 (the year I remember first going to the Walker Building when my mom worked there), and then subsequent decades, 2006 and 2016.

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