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Article: Race relations summit a success
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- Indianapolis Recorder
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- February 4, 2000
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Brown, Amos, III
Indianapolis Recorder
02-04-2000
Race relations summit a success
It was literally standing room only at the race relations summit, sponsored
by Mayor Bart Peterson. More than 900 men, women and young people, African
American, Hispanic American, European American and Asian American jammed
the auditorium and meeting rooms at IUPUI's University Conference Center.
It was the largest gathering to discuss diversity and race relations in
Indianapolis in decades and perhaps ever. People came from all over --
Mapleton-Fall Creek, Brightwood, Haughville, Castleton, Nora, Broad Ripple,
Geist, Perry, Washington, Pike, Warren, Wayne and Lawrence townships, even
the suburbs.
The full gamut of ...