Eunice Trotter also takes us to an old church, a play and a Black island in the Bahamas.
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Eunice Trotter is from a pioneer Hoosier Black family with roots in Indiana dating back to the 1790s.
She attended public schools in Indianapolis and worked her way through college. She holds journalism undergraduate degrees and an MBA.
She began working at The Indianapolis Recorder during her high school years and in 1987 purchased controlling interest of that newspaper, which is one of the oldest African American newspapers in the country.
She was the first African American editor at The Indianapolis Star and held editing and reporting positions at several other newspapers, including The New York Post, Florida Today, the Palm Beach Post, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel and the Lafayette Journal and Courier.
She has won numerous reporting and writing awards and in 2017 was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame.
She has written several historical articles and received the Indiana Historical Society’s Dorothy Riker Historian Award.
She published her first book, “Black in Indiana,” which received a first-place award from the Indiana Press Women’s Club. The book also won first place in the national Federation of Press Women’s competition.
Eunice is now the first director of Indiana Landmark’s Black Heritage Preservation Program. Her job is to identify, document preserve, restore and honor Black heritage statewide.
