August’s installment of History 301 about the city’s first Black pharmacist, Wirt Smith, ended with the surprising news that his daughter, Alpha, married the famous jazz trumpeter, Louis Armstrong. This …
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For historical accuracy, this report contains terminology which newspapers of the time period used to describe African Americans. By CONNIE ZEIGLER, Contributing editor This is the story of Wirt Smith. …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor For six years in the 1950s the name of former Shortridge High School student Madelyn Pugh was in 11 million homes every week, thanks to …
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The April 2020 installment of History 301 focused on the devastating influenza pandemic of 1918-20. By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor When spring arrived in 1921, it must have, even more …
Read More By connie zeigler Contributing editor This report was originally published in the April 2013 edition of Urban Times. This reprint was prompted by the global coronavirus outbreak. This year’s (2013) …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor When the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, the Soviet Union got worried. Three years later when the USSR tested its first …
Read More By CONNIE ZIEGLER Contributing editor, Urban Times George Pogue was one of the first, perhaps the first, white settler in what would become Indianapolis. Pogue, for whom Pogue’s Run was …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor, Urban Times Oliver Johnson, whose family pioneered in the early settlement of Indianapolis, left a green legacy in that village that became this city. His …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor, Urban Times In 1904, the Highland Golf Club opened on land west of the White River in Riverside Park. The clubhouse that members built for …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor In 1969, the #Metoo movement was still far in the future. Women were earning 58.9 percent of men’s wages and the Mary Tyler Moore Show …
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