Editing Greensburg, Indiana (section)

==History==
Greensburg was laid out in 1822 by Col Thomas Hendricks, a veteran of the [[War of 1812]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harding, Lewis Albert |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofdecatur02hard |title=History of Decatur County, Indiana: Its People, Industries and Institutions |publisher=B.F. Bowen |year=1915 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofdecatur02hard/page/n635 156]}}</ref>

Michigan Road was completed in 1837, bringing more people to settle and visit the growing town. After the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and St. Louis Railroad was completed in 1853, the town boomed. Agriculture, foundries, millineries, wholesale grocers, and other businesses took advantage of Greenburg's strategic rail position.<ref name="ACHP">{{Cite web |title=Greensburg, Indiana |url=https://www.achp.gov/preserve-america/community/greensburg-indiana |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=www.achp.gov |publisher=Advisory Council on Historic Preservation}}{{PD-notice}}</ref>

===20th century===
At the beginning of the twentieth century, race relations in Greensburg worsened, leading to the expulsion of African Americans from the city after race riots against them in 1906<ref>Peter M. Bergman and Mort N. Bergman, The Chronological History of the Negro in America (NY: Mentor, 1969): 347.</ref> and 1907.<ref>Fort Wayne Daily News. Fort Wayne, IN: 1 May 1907: 3.</ref> According to [[James W. Loewen]], Greensburg then was for decades a [[sundown town]], a town that was purposely all-white.<ref>James Loewen. ''Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism'', New York: New Press, 2005.</ref>

''[[The Indianapolis News]]'' reported that the [[Greensburg Race Riot|incident on April 30, 1907]], in which white residents drove non-whites from Greensburg, began as local outrage increased following a reported assault on a well-known [[Decatur County, Indiana|Decatur County]] woman by John Green, a Black man.<ref name="Indianapolis News">{{Cite news |date=May 2, 1907 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-news-riot-due-to-laxity/157351742/ |title=Riot Due to Laxity in Enforcing Laws |work=[[The Indianapolis News]] |location=Greensburg, Indiana |page=3 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The ''News'' asserted that the incident was not a race war and was instead "the work of whiskey and every good citizen of Greensburg deplores it."<ref name="Indianapolis News" /> The ''News'' put further blame on a "wide-open policy" that allowed "disreputable whites and depraved negroes" that had been in force for two years.<ref name="Indianapolis News" />