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#First2DoItFriday: The Mini-Marathon is tomorrow morning! The Race began in 1977 and you used to take place Memorial Day weekend! Have you ever participated in the Mini? If so, what years!?

#First2DoItFriday: VINCENNES, INDIANA - the state's oldest European city and our first territorial capitol! It's cool to see how Indiana has evolved! Always remember, this is INDIANA, land of the Indians, the Native Americans, they were here first!

#First2DoItFriday: We’re back in Norwood celebrating the incredible life of Ada Harris. Recently. I’ve been working with Kaila to help preserve and share the resilience of Norwood, an historically Black neighborhood and community on Indy’s Southeast side!

#First2DoItFriday: Harriette Bailey Conn became the first woman and the first African American to serve as Indiana's state public defender in 1970.

#First2DoItFriday: Sigma Gamma Rho was founded in 1922 at Butler University. Sigma Gamma Rho is also the first and only Black sorority to be founded on the campus of a Predominantly White Institution.

#First2DoItFriday: Frazier Leon Thompson Sr., originally from Philadelphia, was the first Black student to enroll at and graduate from the University of Notre Dame. He was also the first African-American student to compete in Notre Dame athletics and to win a Notre Dame monogram.

#First2DoItFriday: James T.V. Hill moved to Indianapolis in his early years. Hill became the first African-American admitted to the Circuit Court of Indianapolis Bar in 1879 and the first practicing African-American attorney in Marion County.

#First2DoItFriday: In July 1941, DeBow entered aviation cadet training with the Tuskegee Airmen's first class of aviation cadets, Class 42-C-SE. Being among the first five to graduate, they "drew the most sustained attention from the press and the Black community as a result."

#First2DoItFriday: On February 4, 2007, Tony Dungy led the Colts to victory in Super Bowl XLI, making him the first Black head coach to win the Super Bowl. The win came against Lovie Smith. They were the first Black head coaches in the 41-year history of the Super Bowl.

#First2DoItFriday: Judge Zilthia Mae “Z. Mae” Perkins was the first African American candidate to win the primary from a major party and was later appointed as the first African American judge on the Marion County Superior Court.

#First2DoItFriday: Hariette Bailey Conn became the first woman and the first African American to serve as Indiana's state public defender in 1970. She also served as Indianapolis' assistant city attorney from 1968 to 1970, and twice won election to the IN House of Representatives

#First2DoItFriday: Indiana's "oldest" city, Vincennes, was first inhabited for thousands of years by different cultures of indigenous peoples. Some of these peoples used local loess hills as burial sites; more prominent examples are the Sugar Loaf Mound and the Pyramid Mound.

#First2DoItFriday: The Evansville weekly Our Age, which was in circulation by 1878, is the first known African-American newspaper in Indiana. Alternatively, some sources assign the title of first to the Indianapolis Leader or the Logansport Colored Visitor...

#First2DoItFriday: George Taliaferro became the first African-American player drafted by an NFL team when he was picked by the Chicago Bears in 1949. Taliaferro was a standout, three-time All-American at Indiana University, leading the Hoosiers to their only undefeated season...

#First2DoItFriday: James Thomas Vastine Hill was the first Black lawyer admitted to the Indiana Bar Association (1886). Hill also served as deputy prosecutor here in Marion County. There is currently a park in Martindale named after Hill, a mural was painted in his honor.

#First2DoItFriday: The first and only state seal depicts Indiana as it was in 1816. The ground has “shoots of blue grass, in the area of the buffalo and woodsman”, which would reflect Southern Indiana, where our first state Capitol was. The seal, which is extremely detailed...

#First2DoItFriday: The Fall Creek massacre refers to the slaughter of 9 Native Americans on March 22, 1824 by seven white settlers in Madison County, Indiana. It was the first documented case in which white Americans were executed for the murder of Native Americans under U.S. law

#First2DoItFriday: Indiana's first and only African-American Civil War regiment served as part of the 28th Regiment of U.S. Colored Troops. African-American infantry was authorized in 1863 to fill federal quota. In April 1864, six companies were organized and activated.

#First2DoItFriday: In the fall of 2018, Jake Bain accepted a full ride scholarship to Indiana State University to play football, becoming one of the first openly gay Division I team athletes in history. In high school, he was named offensive player of the year in Missouri.

#First2DoItFriday: In 1981, the first Indianapolis Pride event was a dinner at the now gone, Essex House Hotel where many of the attendees wore masks upon entering the hotel so as not to be seen.

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