Lafayette Women Voters in the 1920s – Enthusiastic, Untried and Unfettered “Vote as you please, but VOTE!” – Tippecanoe County League of Women Voters (1926) By Mary E. Anthrop The headlines in the Lafayette Journal and Courier in mid May of 1923 shocked the citizenry. “Women School Principals May Lose Positions – Board Known to […]
Emancipation Day – September 22 By Mary E. Anthrop In the latter part of the 19th century and well into the 20th century Lafayette’s African American population celebrated September 22 as Emancipation Day. September 22 was the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s issuance of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862). Lafayette’s African Americans celebrated […]
150th Anniversary of the Passage of the 15th Amendment By guest blogger, Mary Anthrop “The event to be celebrated is one of the most memorable in the world’s history. It is no light thing to lift into the body politic four million people heretofore as a class, robbed of the products of their labor, and […]
Interview with Policeman Paul Klinker “This is 1933; there’s no place to work. And this job is a hazardous job, but someone got to do it.” Sometime in the late 1970s, in an oral history interview Paul Klinker recounted his experiences as a Lafayette policeman during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This excerpt recalls […]
“Lafayette’s First Bridge Over the Wabash” By George E. Gould [This article first appeared in the TCHA membership newsletter “Weatenotes”, Nol. 18, No. 3, March 1985] As early as the 1830’s the merchants of Lafayette realized that a bridge across the Wabash River was necessary for the growth of the town. Thus in 1837, 1841, […]
Lafayette, Indiana- Star City of the West by Alameda McCollough [Editor’s note: the opening sentence of this article is as true today as it was when Miss McCollough wrote this piece in 1974 for her Weatenotes column, “Let’s Go See.” Just recently we used this reference in response to a request from a local radio […]