Chronicles the growth in both numbers and power of African-Americans in Indiana in the twentieth century, exploring the impact of the Great Migration on the state, the growth of black communities in the 1920s, the expansion of civil rights in the 1960s and 1970s, and other related topics.

While most books about the Amish focus on the Pennsylvania settlements or on the religious history of the sect, this book is a cultural history of one Indiana Amish community and its success in resisting assimilation into the larger culture. Amish culture has persisted relatively unchanged primarily because the Amish view the world around them through the prism of their belief in collective salvation based on purity, separation, and perseverance....