The unrest set, tested whole: the county's nights are South Bend's; this ground has none in the record

1924 · 1967 · 1968 · 2020 · the labor record — Granger-ground share: none found

The test: The checklist's unrest set — the Klan clash, the 1967 shooting and curfew summer, the 1968 march season, the May 2020 protests, and labor unrest with its sit-down pattern — was run against the South Bend Tribune file and the county record as the open sources carry them, with the Harris and Clay township share checked in each case. The county's unrest record is real and it is South Bend's, whole. No unrest event on Granger ground — in the CDP, in Harris Township, or in Clay Township — stands in any source reached. The county course is printed here at boundary size, because it is the course this ground's people lived next to; the Granger share is printed as the negative it tested to.

The Klan clash, May 1924: The Ku Klux Klan's Indiana strength met its most famous street resistance in South Bend, where on 17–19 May 1924 Notre Dame students clashed with Klansmen in the city — a confrontation carried in the Indiana University Undergraduate Research Journal of History (2024) and in Notre Dame Magazine's own retrospective, with the South Bend Tribune of 18 May 1924 reporting under the headline "Tense Excitement Prevails…" The clash was a fight over the university and the city's streets, fifteen years before the farm townships east of the city had any institution of their own to fight over. No Klan rally, parade, cross-burning or clash on Harris or Clay township ground stands in the record reached; the Klan era's local violence belongs to South Bend's file, and this ground's share of it is not documented at any size.

1967 and 1968: South Bend's civil-rights-era unrest ran on the city's west side. In the last week of July 1967 — 25–28 July — the west side saw nights of unrest, and on 26 July 1967, at the LaSalle Neighborhood Center, Melvin Phillips was shot; the Notre Dame Observer's retrospective of 11 December 1967 and the Tribune's later file, catalogued at the Mishawaka library, carry the incident. In 1968 the course continued at protest size: a sit-in at the South Bend school board offices on 29 April 1968, and in August 1968 the arson and bombing of the Unitarian Church, both carried in Dale Gibson's oral history for the IUSB Civil Rights Heritage Center. These are the county's 1967 shooting and 1968 march-season events, dated to their nights as the checklist asks — and every one of them is a South Bend address. No march, sit-in, curfew or shooting of those years is recorded on Granger ground; the townships' children rode into the city's schools and its arguments, but the unrest itself stayed inside the city line.

May–July 2020: The George Floyd protest summer reached this county at march size and stayed peaceful at its largest. On 30 May 2020 two marches moved through South Bend with hundreds of participants, and the South Bend Tribune reported them peaceful — no arrests, no injuries, no damage as of that night. The summer's one local injury came across the river: on 6 July 2020 a car drove through a protest in Mishawaka, injuring one person — Mishawaka's ground, boundary-printed here, not absorbed. No protest, march or unrest event is recorded in Granger itself in 2020; a CDP with no city hall, no downtown and no police force of its own had no civic stage for one, and the record reflects that absence rather than filling it.

Labor unrest, and the honest negative: The checklist's labor pattern — the sit-down strike, the plant-gate fight — was tested against the county's industrial record, and it sits where the county's industry sat: in South Bend. The county's great labor fight of the era was Studebaker's: a strike at the South Bend plant that began 1 January 1962 and lasted thirty-eight days, settled between company president Sherwood H. Egbert and the UAW's Walter P. Reuther, less than two years before the plant's closing ended car production in South Bend on 20 December 1963. That is the labor-unrest anchor of the county record, and it is a South Bend plant's. On Granger ground there was never an anchor plant to strike: the banked business record for this ground is farms, gravel, retail and offices, and no sit-down, picket or strike on Harris or Clay township ground stands in any source reached. The negative is printed at that strength — not "no unrest was found in a quick search," but the structural one: the industry that produced the county's labor unrest was never seated here.

The set, closed: Klan clash, 1967, 1968, 2020, labor — each element of the unrest set was run, each resolved to a South Bend (once, Mishawaka) address, and the Granger-ground share tested to zero in the record reached. If a township-level incident exists — a Klan rally in a Harris Township field, a 1967 disturbance on a Clay Township road — its settler is the South Bend Tribune's township coverage in the Hoosier State Chronicles run and the St. Joseph County sheriff's record, and it would enter as a new find, not as a correction to a claim this entry never made.

Sources:

1. Indiana University Undergraduate Research Journal of History (2024) and Notre Dame Magazine — the Notre Dame–Klan clash in South Bend, 17–19 May 1924. South Bend Tribune, 18 May 1924 — "Tense Excitement Prevails…"
2. Notre Dame Observer, 11 December 1967 — retrospective on the July 1967 west-side unrest and the 26 July 1967 LaSalle Neighborhood Center incident (Melvin Phillips shot). South Bend Tribune retrospective file, as catalogued by the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library.
3. Dale Gibson oral history, IUSB Civil Rights Heritage Center — the 29 April 1968 sit-in at the South Bend school board offices; the August 1968 Unitarian Church arson/bombing.
4. South Bend Tribune, 30–31 May 2020 — the two South Bend marches of 30 May 2020, hundreds participating, peaceful, no arrests, injuries or damage reported that night; and the 6 July 2020 car-through-protest incident in Mishawaka, one injured (Mishawaka's ground, boundary-printed).
5. Studebaker labor record — the South Bend plant strike of 1 January – February 1962 (thirty-eight days), settled by Sherwood H. Egbert and Walter P. Reuther; South Bend production ended 20 December 1963 (Studebaker National Museum / WNDU retrospective, December 2023). No strike, sit-down or picket on Harris or Clay township ground appears in any source reached.