Browsing by Subject "Butler-Tarkington"

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    Antique Post Card Collecting Provides Connection with History of Butler-Tarkington, and the Greater City
    (Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association (BTNA), 2023) Hook , Sara Anne
    This article provides an example of how collecting postcards can result in a primary source for historical research of a specific location.
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    The Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association and the Fight Against Residential Segregation in Indianapolis
    (2021-07) Prebish, Lydia Anne; Morgan, Anita; Mullins, Paul; Robertson, Nancy
    The Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association (BTNA) is a community group organized in 1956 by a few concerned couples living in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood on the north side of Indianapolis. These couples, both Black and white, witnessed a demographic change in their community as their white neighbors fled for the suburbs as the black population expanded. The BTNA, inspired to create an organization that would promote residential integration rather than continued segregation, worked to educate neighbors on the realities of integration, promote neighborhood conversation and comradery, and worked to influence the local and state governments on the impact of segregation that harmed their community. One of the first neighborhood organizations of its kind in the country, the BTNA still exists today, but little is known about their early history. This paper looks at the BTNA’s efforts to promote residential segregation in their community through activism, conversation, and legislative change. Additionally, this paper analyzes the BTNA success in its efforts to integrate the community during their first decade of existence.