Mattie Rice Coney was a schoolteacher and civic leader in Indianapolis. She was a well-known advocate for the inner-city poor. Coney was born in Gallatin, Tenn., and grew up in Indianapolis, where she lived all her life. She was a graduate of Butler University. Coney put herself through Butler University by delivering newspapers and working […]
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