History of Race in Indiana by Shalika Robie https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7 How has this impacted current day inequities? en-us 2021-10-18 13:31:34 UTC 2025-12-04 17:08:44 UTC hello@padlet.com 1922: The Engman Public Natatorium, the city-owned public natatorium, opens on West Washington Street. For the first 14 years, only white people were allowed to use the facility. srobie2 https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824132810 2021-10-18 13:34:28 UTC https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824132810 1930 Lynching srobie2 https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824145630 On August 7, 1930 African American teenagers Shipp, Smith, and James Cameron were held in the Marion jail for the murder of Claude Deeter and rape of Mary Ball. Before the young men could stand trial, a mob comprised of white residents tore the young men from their cells, brutally beat and mutilated them before hanging Shipp and Smith from a tree on the courthouse lawn. 

]]> 2021-10-18 13:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824145630 1950 Housing Inequities srobie2 https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824163881 In 1950, workers at Studebaker formed an early African American building co-op in Indiana, Better Homes of South Bend.  Many members moved from the South in 1940s to escape segregation and Jim Crow policies. However, federal lending and real estate policies here prevented them from obtaining mortgages equal to whites,  limiting members to dilapidated homes in poor areas.

]]> 2021-10-18 13:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824163881 1981 Fully Integrated Schools srobie2 https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824203027 1981: South Bend public schools become fully integrated, based on a consent decree signed in federal court. In 1981, the case United States v. South Bend Community School Corp. reshaped the South Bend school system, establishing a consent decree that ordered the number of “black students in each school … be within 15 percent of the total percentage of black students in the school system.” The plan also “ensured student transportation and school closings would fall equitably on all racial groups,” adjusted faculty assignments and ordered “substantially equal disciplinary practices.”

]]> 2021-10-18 13:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824203027 2015 Decrease in Diversified Police Department srobie2 https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824270560 Among full time SBPD employees, African-Americans numbered 40 in 2013, and were reduced to 26 by 2015. Among all SBPD employees, including part-time staff, African-American representation dropped from 49 in 2013 to 41 in 2015. And among new hires, just a single African-American employee was hired out of seventeen open positions between July 1, 2014, and June 30, 2015.]]> 2021-10-18 14:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824270560 2019 Race Relations in South Bend srobie2 https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824301332 The investigation into a South Bend police shooting that made national headlines and briefly pulled then-Mayor Pete Buttigieg from his presidential campaign has ended.


After a monthslong probe of the June 16, 2019, shooting of Eric Logan by a white South Bend police officer, Special Prosecutor Ric Hertel announced Sgt. Ryan O'Neill was "justified" in the use of deadly force.

]]> 2021-10-18 14:24:40 UTC https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824301332 2020: Hate Crimes Increase srobie2 https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824386781 The data shows hate crime offenders in Indiana are white in roughly 55% of the cases, matching previous years. Simple assault and intimidation make up the majority of the offense types.  ]]> 2021-10-18 14:52:03 UTC https://padlet.com/srobie2/yrcbhhe8drsmomj7/wish/1824386781