South Bend's Own Words
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South Bend's Own Words is a history podcast hosted by IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center. It has 66 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
People's stories recorded from the Oral History Collection of the Civil Rights Heritage Center at the Indiana University South Bend Archives. Telling the history of the civil rights movement and the experiences of Black, Latinx, LGBTQ, and other marginalized peoples in South Bend, Indiana. For more, visit crhc.iusb.edu.
history ·en-us ·66 episodes
Dorothy Smith on the price of being the first
Doris Grady Howell shares her days of glory in an all-African American girls softball league
Tom Singer, lawyer and ally, on discrimination in South Bend
Father John Phalen on the founding of La Casa de Amistad
The LGBTQ Center's 20th Anniversary
Ms. Adeline Wigfall-Jones, legendary west-side barber and community builder
John Charles Bryant: African American life and legacy
Tom Beatty on local LGBTQ+ spaces like the Seahorse
Joaquin Robles on four decades in the Latine community in South Bend
Charlotte Huddleston on African Americans in nursing
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Elmer Joseph, on west side Black owned businesses
Odie Mae Streets, on passing in the early 20th century
Gail Brodie, west side community organizer
Andre Buchanan
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Ruperto Guedea
Alma Powell
African American Landmarks
Rebecca Ruvalcaba
Renelda Robinson
Abdul Nur
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Housing in South Bend
100 Years of the Engman Public Natatorium
Madeline Smothers
Jack Reed
David Healey and Les Lamon
Ricardo Parra
Ralph Miles
Lucille Sneed
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South Bend Schools
Dale Gibson
Marguerite Taylor and Charlie Howell
Officer Jerome Perkins
Savino Rivera, Sr.
Jeanette Hughes
Willie Mae Butts
Ben Johnson
Representative John Lewis at IU South Bend
South Bend Uprising
Jenell Kauffman
Bishop Donald Alford
Federico "Chico" Rodriguez
Glenda Rae Hernandez
Dr. Irving Allen
Andrea Petrass
South Bend responds to the Assassination of MLK
Lois Clark
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