This Day in Indiana
History: Marshall Taylor, World Champion
Bicyclist
On August 10,
1899, Marshall “Major” Taylor of Indianapolis won the one-mile world
championship in bicycling in Montreal.
Taylor was the first African-American world champion in any sport and
held several world records, and President Theodore Roosevelt was one of his
biggest fans.
Taylor is
featured on the map Horsepower to Hysteria: Indiana Sports History (above, click to enlarge) available from the Ball State University
Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC). This map is part of a series of maps created
by the GRMC commemorating Indiana history.
The maps are geared toward the fourth-grade Indiana history curriculum
and feature numerous people and places often neglected in the elementary social
studies textbook.
The sports
history map includes Indiana’s love of the game of basketball with hometown
heroes like Larry Byrd of French Lick and John Wooden of Martinsville. David Boudia, a gold medalist diver from
Noblesville, is also featured. And Dan
Patch of Oxford—a world record-breaking harness racehorse in the early 1900’s—is
also depicted.
Another
sports-related map from the GRMC shows the Indiana high school boys basketball
state champions (before class basketball).
Other maps in the series include a map of Indiana political history, Indiana
women’s history, Indiana automobile history, and Indiana music history. A map showing movies that take place in
Indiana is available. Maps of prominent
authors from the state, animals of Indiana, points of interest, and Indiana “firsts” and inventions
are also included in the series.
The maps include
photographs from the Libraries’ Digital Media Repository and from the Indiana
Historical Society. The Indiana history
maps are available in the Libraries’ Cardinal Scholar repository. The maps may be printed and used in the
classroom or for research, learning projects, or other displays.
For more
information, please contact the GRMC at 765-285-1097.
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