People's stories recorded from the Oral History Collection of the Civil Rights Heritage Center at the Indiana University South Bend Archives. Telling... more
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With makeshift decor and a boom box for music, the original Seahorse was totally undistinguished, but it became a sanctuary... more
After growing up in Puerto Rico, Joaquin Robles moved to South Bend, Indiana, and lived forty-plus years here. Joaquin talks about... more
As the only African American Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) at South Bend, Indiana’s Memorial Hospital in the late 1960s, Charlotte... more
Since 2017, for 54 episodes, you’ve been with us as we’ve gone back into South Bend’s history. And next week, we’re... more
A Mississippi native who moved to South Bend in 1944 speaks about Black businesses on the west side. Elmer Joseph came... more
A 1931 graduate of South Bend’s Central High School talks about her experiences growing up in a resort town of... more
Gail Brodie lived her entire life in her beloved west side community. She even has an honorary street named after... more
Andre Buchanan grew up in South Bend’s east side African American community in a house that, today, is threatened by... more
Over the past two years, doctors Jamie Wagman and Julia Dauer from Saint Mary’s College collected local stories of those... more
Ruperto Guedea lived the majority of his life in the United States straddling multiple cultures. Born into a small mining... more