Editing Salem, Indiana (section)

===African Americans in Salem===
In 1898, Salem was recorded to be a [[sundown town]], where African Americans were not allowed to reside.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 20, 1898 |title=John Hay |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84038016/1898-08-20/ed-1/seq-2/ |access-date=April 28, 2022 |work=[[Palladium-Item|Richmond Daily Palladium]] |location=[[Richmond, Indiana]] |page=2 |via=Chronicling America |quote=[[John Hay]], the new secretary of state, was born in Salem, this state, about sixty years ago. That place has the unenviable distinction of being the only town in Indiana where negroes are not allowed to live.}}</ref> The last Black person who lived in Salem was Alexander White. The minister of the Salem Methodist Episcopal church married Alexander White and his wife Eliza Jane Demars on May 5, 1830. White ran a hotel in Salem.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Robbins |first=Coy D. |title=Reclaiming African Heritage at Salem, Indiana |publisher=Heritage Books |year=1995 |isbn=0788403257 |location=Maryland |pages=133 |language=en}}</ref> He was murdered in Salem in 1867. The killers were not punished, although one of them, Harvey Zink, was tried for the crime.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Campney |first=Brent M.S. |title=Hostile Heartland: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest |publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]] |year=2019 |isbn=978-0252084300 |location=Champaign-Urbana |pages=65 |language=en}}</ref>