| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century. By Emma Lou Thornbrough. Ed. by Lana Ruegamer. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. xii, 286 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-253-33799-2.)

Emma Lou Thornbrough, the leading scholar of Indiana's black history, died in December 1994. A white woman, she was a pioneer in this field as well as in her profession. Her dissertation at the University of Michigan (1946), "Negro Slavery in the North: Its Constitutional and Legal Aspects," was followed by a study of the Ku Klux Klan in Indianapolis in the 1920s and The Negro in Indiana before 1900 (1957). She also wrote Since Emancipation: A Short History of Indiana Negroes, 1863–1963 (1964) and This Far by Faith: Black Hoosier Heritage (1982). She had completed all but the last chapter of this book before she died. Thornbrough was, moreover, a civil liberties and civil rights activist. Lana Ruegamer, editor of this work, states, "she had an unparalleled knowledge of Indiana's twentieth-century black history and a personal acquaintance with many of its protagonists." 1

Ruegamer's experience as an editor for the Indiana Historical Society led to her being invited to work on the manuscript, which required copy editing and research to identify the footnotes for chapters 3 through 9. She also wrote the last chapter, "The Continuing Search for Identity." (Chapter 1 begins with a discussion of how in 1901 "citizens of African descent were debating among themselves about the name by which they wished to be called.") She made relatively minor textual changes. . . .

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