Jelly Roll Morton
This file appears in: Indiana Avenue
This Indianapolis Freeman article shows Jelly Roll Morton before he became a piano-playing jazz legend. Morton performed in vaudeville with his sister, and they had an early appearance at the Crown Garden Theatre, where he was billed as Ferd Morton.
This file appears in: Indiana Avenue
Indiana Avenue
One of the four original diagonal streets of the 1821 plan for Indianapolis, Indiana Avenue tells an important part of the story of African American life in Indianapolis, much of which was centered here on the near northwest side of the downtown…