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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:59 — 6.8MB)Subscribe: RSSNot so long ago, it was totally legal to put a restriction on your property deed preventing Black people from buying your house. This shadowy chapter in local history was the subject of a fascinating presentation hosted by the Monroe County History Club. Founder Michael Carter recounts how the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:45 — 8.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHilary Fleck was awarded a May Wright Sewall Fellowship grant by Indiana Humanities earlier this year. Fleck, the collections manager at the Monroe County History Center, is researching the role of local women in the lead-up to the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, …