The unrest day, tested: the county's unrest is South Bend's; no Granger share stands

1924 · 1967–68 · 2020 — the three county unrest seasons, Granger share checked

The shared test:The county record was worked at full size in its owning file; what follows is this ground's share, which is the only part this section may print.

1924 — the Klan clash: The Ku Klux Klan's Indiana strength made South Bend its target in May 1924: a Klan picnic and parade planned for May 17, and three days of confrontation, May 17–19, in which some 500 Notre Dame students stormed downtown, stripped hoods and robes from Klansmen, drove them to their headquarters at Wayne and Michigan streets, and bombarded the third-floor red-light "fiery cross" with potatoes from grocery barrels until Harry Stuhldreher broke the last bulb; a man claiming to be a Baptist preacher put a pistol to a sophomore's chest before President Matthew Walsh ended the affair from the courthouse lawn, and the Klan scrapped its planned second rally. Every placed element of it — the streets, the headquarters, the courthouse — is downtown South Bend. No Klan event, rally, or clash is placed in Clay or Harris township in any source reached.

1967–68 and 2020: The long hot summer reached South Bend on July 26, 1967 — the Kerner Commission's chronology and the New York Times' headline record 1,000 National Guardsmen sent in, a curfew, and a second night of roving bands on the city's west side; the oral-history record at Indiana University South Bend's Civil Rights Heritage Center keeps the 1967–68 course on the west side and at Washington High School, all of it city ground. In 2020 the county's marches were downtown South Bend's: two marches on May 30, 2020, from Jon Hunt Plaza to the police department, hundreds strong and peaceful, naming George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Eric Logan. For none of the three seasons does any source reached place a march, a curfew, a Guard deployment, or a clash in Granger. The ground was farm and new suburb through the first two seasons and is carried in no account of the third.

The verdict: Granger has no unrest day. The test is printed so the absence is a finding and not a silence: the county's unrest record is real, dated and placed — in South Bend, whole, in that city's file — and this ground's share of it, checked season by season, is none.

Sources:

1. Notre Dame Stories (August 2018) and Notre Dame Magazine (May 2024) — the Klan confrontation of May 17–19, 1924, placed element by element in downtown South Bend.
2. Kerner Commission chronology via the "Long, hot summer of 1967" record; New York Times headline of July 1967 — 1,000 Guardsmen, curfew, South Bend's west side.
3. Civil Rights Heritage Center oral histories, Indiana University South Bend (Michiana Memory / SJCPL) — 1967–68 recollections placed on the west side, Washington Street and Washington High School.
4. South Bend Tribune / ND Insider, May 30, 2020 — the two downtown South Bend marches; peaceful; no arrests or injuries as of late that night.
5. Granger-share searches across all three seasons, November 2026: no event placed in Clay or Harris township in any source reached.