Saturday, March 15
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Southeast Community Services
901 Shelby St
The Southside US Colored Troop Coalition (USCTC) is honored to coordinate this event to ensure Indy’s southeast residents have access to information and essential community services.
All are welcome to attend this FREE event! The Resource Fair will provide residents with a wide range of information and resources about workforce development training opportunities, eviction prevention services, record expungement, youth development, scholarships, child and women’s health, infrastructure initiatives and much more.
The purpose of this initiative is to develop a pathway to preserve the southeast neighborhoods, document their historical relevance, elevate their collective voices, improve the environment, and create economic mobility pathways for all.
“We have been working to build up these neighborhoods for four years. It is our intent to bring awareness, training and resources as we commit ourselves to making Indy’s southeast neighborhoods an outstanding place to live, work and play,” said Kaila Austin, the Southside USCTC Project Lead.
Visit the Indianapolis Liberation Center’s table at this important event!
About the Coalition
The mission of the Southside USCTC is to protect, preserve and revitalize the communities, families and stories of the US Colored Troop descendants of Indianapolis’ southside. Its mission is based on five pillars: coalition building, creative storytelling, economic development, environment, and heritage preservation.
Since the Summer of 2021, the descendants of the US Colored Troops have embarked on a planning strategy that incorporates an economic/community development strategy to restore their neighborhoods, while preserving their families’ historic relevance in America’s history. In April 2023, Southside USCTC was formed, creating an Advisory Committee with representatives of each of the four neighborhoods. It was created in response to the collective community activism in the Southeast quadrant. Currently, the Coalition partners with a team of practitioners with a myriad of expertise to educate and mobilize the residents of Indianapolis’ southeast side.
The Southside USCTC currently targets four Indiana neighborhoods on Marion County’s Southeast side that were founded by US Colored Troops (1863-66) and the newly emancipated African Americans who moved into these communities for protection during the Reconstruction Period (1865-77): Norwood (1872), Barrington (1872), Babe Denny (1875) and Hosbrook Street (1863).