Editing Muncie, Indiana (section)

===African-American history===
[[File:Ku Klux Klan in Muncie.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Ku Klux Klan]] gathering in Muncie in 1922]]

The black population in Muncie grew from 3.7% in 1890 to 5.6% in 1920 to 13.2% in 2013. Muncie's Riverside and Normal City neighborhoods had imposed [[sundown town]] rules by 1904, meaning "that unknown negroes who are found on the streets after nightfall are liable to be severely dealt with."<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 30, 1904 |orig-date=Originally published June 28, 1904 |title=Race Feeling Running High |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-weekly-republican-race-feeling-runni/157597800/ |location=Muncie, Indiana |newspaper=[[The Plymouth Tribune]] |page=1 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> In 1920, the city had the fifth-largest black population in Indiana, with 2,054 black residents. Two major parades were held by the [[Ku Klux Klan]] in 1922 and 1924, with the mayor and police chief attending the 1924 parade.

The first black police officer in Muncie was hired in 1899, and the city's first black police chief took his position in 1995. The first black teacher in the city was hired in 1952, and the first black principal was appointed in 1956.<ref name="black">{{Cite news |date=March 22, 2015 |title=Black and White Muncie |page=F10 |work=[[The Star Press]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91380070/muncie-black-history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211229185945/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91380070/muncie-black-history/ |archive-date=December 29, 2021 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

According to [[Hurley Goodall]], the first serious black political candidate in Muncie was Wayne Brooks, who ran for the Republican nomination for mayor in 1934. Ray Armstrong was elected as the first black member of the city council in 1951, and Alice McIntosh was elected as the first black female member of the city council in 1983. Goodall was the first black person elected to the city's school board and later to represent the area in the state house. No other black person served on Muncie's school board after Goodall's election to the state house until Carl Kizer Jr.'s appointment to the board in 1993. The school board became majority black for the first time after the 2008 election.<ref name="black" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=June 16, 2002 |title=Some blacks say they feel shut out |page=5 |work=[[The Star Press]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91380114/muncie-black-history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211229190650/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91380114/muncie-black-history/ |archive-date=December 29, 2021 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=May 12, 2008 |title=Board to have first-ever black majority |page=1 |work=[[The Star Press]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91380082/muncie-black-history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211229191003/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91380082/muncie-black-history/ |archive-date=December 29, 2021 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=September 29, 1993 |title=Kizer chosen for Muncie school board |page=1 |work=[[The Star Press|Muncie Evening Press]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91330751/muncie-evening-press/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211228212623/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91330751/muncie-evening-press/ |archive-date=December 28, 2021 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>