Indiana: Muncie, Anderson, Elwood; Sightseeing, Organs, and Politics

 Muncie, according to an email I got last night, is a destination city. The Ball State Daily Student highlights Five hidden gems to visit in Muncie.

Indiana Rep. Larry Bucshon's bill to improve U.S. organ transplant network signed by Biden:

President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill into law on Friday that a Republican Indiana Congressman helped introduce earlier this year.

U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon, R-Ind., and U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill.,  in April introduced H.R. 2544, Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act, which opens up the number of groups that can help operate the transplant network and help speed up the process for organ transplants.

Who knew the Green Book included places in the north? Or Two Anderson sites were included as safe place for black travelers

 ANDERSON – As African-Americans made their way up north to work and play, the “Green Book,” a now-historic national travel guide, gave them a couple of way stations in Anderson where they could rejuvenate.

Geared toward the black community, it listed the Terrance Café, a tavern at 1411 Madison Ave., in 1949 and the former Indiana Motel on Indiana 9 in 1960 when it was owned by F.J. and Mrs. Frances A. Leaf, according to the City Directory, as places where black travelers could safely find food and shelter.

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With its Article 13, a mid-1800s law that prevented black people from moving to the state, a vibrant Ku Klux Klan presence that dominated political life in the 1920s and sundown towns that set daily curfews requiring black people to leave, Indiana was viewed by many black people to be as inhospitable as any place in the Deep South.

Out of the past, a hope for the future, and what I see as a rebuke of the current Republican Party: Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination in Elwood, Indiana:

 But their misery and suffering make us resolve to preserve our country as a land free of hate and bitterness, of racial and class distinction. I pledge you that kind of America.

They believed in the qualities that have made America great—an independent spirit, an inquiring mind, a courageous heart..

She forgot that freedom must be dynamic, that it is forever in the process of creating a new world. This was the lesson that we of America had taught to all countries.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightment than from any other way. Free men are the strongest men.

It is my belief that there is no hate in the hearts of any group of Americans for any other American group—except as the New Dealers seek to put it there for political purposes. I stand for a new companionship in an industrial society.

The ability to grow, the ability to make things, is the measure of man's welfare on this earth. To be free, man must be creative.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free.

And only the productive can be strong.

we cannot rebuild our American democracy without hardship, without sacrifice, even—without suffering

We must have faith that the welfare of one is the welfare of all. We must know that the truth can only be reached by the expression of our free opinions, without fear and without rancor. We must acknowledge that all are equal before God and before the law. And we must learn to abhor those disruptive pressures, whether religious, political, or economic, that the enemies of liberty employ.

 

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