Hoosier History Live is an independently produced new media project about Indiana history, integrating podcasts, website www.HoosierHistoryLive.org, weekly enewsletter, and social media. Its original content comes initially from a live with call in weekly talk radio show hosted by author and historian Nelson Price. You can hear the show live Saturdays from noon to 1 pm ET at WICR 88.7 fm or stream the show live at the WICR HD1 app on your phone, or at our website.

February 10, 2024

Preempted show for U Indy sports; Black firefighters show coming next week

Hoosier History Live will be preempted Saturday (Feb. 10) by WICR-FM for coverage of U Indy sports. But we will return Feb. 17 with a new, live show about "Black firefighter history in Indy''. The history began in 1876, when four trail-blazing African Americans were hired by the Indianapolis Fire Department during an era when firefighting equipment was transported by horse-drawn wagons and carriages.

Our guest on this Black History Month show will be Corey Floyd, an IFD battalion chief and president of the Indianapolis Black Firefighters Association, which is in the midst of a major project. A history museum about Black firefighters is being developed in a non-operational (shuttered) fire station on the north-eastside. The museum in Old Station No. 31, 1201 E. 46th St., will feature historic firefighting equipment, uniforms and videos. Black firefighters were needed early on (IFD had been established in 1859) because many of their white colleagues did not want to venture into Black neighborhoods to put out fires, according to Battalion Chief Floyd, who grew up near Old Station No. 31.

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