Alison Stankrauff, Archivist and Associate Librarian, collaborated with the St. Joseph County Public Library and Civil Rights Heritage Center to obtain an Indiana Memory Digitization Grant, which they used to create Michiana Memories (http://michianamemory.sjcpl.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16827coll4), a website with local African American historical collections. Some of the items available on the website include photographs from the Dr. Bernard Streets Collection; copies of a South Bend African American newspaper; and historical documents and studies on race and housing in South Bend. Stankrauff is excited about the impact this collection will have on the community: “This project helps to tell the full story of Michiana…It adds the voices and stories of local African Americans and activists to show the amazing and important history we all share.”
