A powerful limited-time exhibition that shows two competing artistic responses to racial violence during 1930s, with lessons for our world today.
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Exhibition opening event: “Unmasked: The Anti-Lynching Exhibits of 1935 and Community Remembrance in Indiana”
Join us as we unveil a limited-time exhibition that offers a powerful look into two competing artistic responses to racial violence during 1930s, with lessons for our world today.
African American Studebaker stories
The IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center is working with the Studebaker National Museum to record stories and help others learn more about this important part of Studebaker’s South Bend’s history.
Special event: Kekla Magoon | Indiana Authors Awards Tour
The celebrated Hoosier author sits in conversation with the Brain Lair’s Kathy Burnette
Book launch | Placing History: An African American Landmark Tour of South Bend, Indiana
The strength of South Bend, Indiana’s African American community comes to life through stories of the places where history was made and the people who helped make it.
Exhibition opening | “Queer SB in the 1970s”
Learn how, fifty years ago, South Bend’s LGBTQ+ community grew and fought against injustices.
“Riotsville, U.S.A.” | crhc:film
Learn how the U.S. military built fake towns to practice violent quelling of uprisings during the 1960s.
Celebrating Malcolm X 2023
We take time to celebrate the life of the late civil rights leader and advocate for justice.
Get out of the house – check out the museum or zoo pass!
Don’t spend the winter months cooped up. Take a walk through history, gawk at cars or tanks, or indulge your love of animals by taking a winter stroll through the zoo. A pass to either the History & Studebaker museums or to the Potawatomi Zoo is available at the library. Each pass checks out for… Read more »
Black History Month at the CRHC— Week 1
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Threthewey visits the Civil Rights Heritage Center in a powerful start of a month of special events.