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4 JULY 2020
The modern record reached carries one Mishawaka unrest datum, and it is dated and sourced: on 4 July 2020, in the summer of the George Floyd protests, about thirty people protested at the Main Street bridge, and a car drove through the protesters, dragging one of them fifty feet and injuring that person. The South Bend Tribune's account (Marek Mazurek, 6 July 2020) is the source, carried in the national protest and vehicle-ramming compilations. No earlier Mishawaka unrest entry — no riot, march or disturbance of the civil-rights era — appears in any source reached for this build, which is consistent with the counts: the 1967 shooting and the march of four thousand in the checklist's floor instance are South Bend's, in a city whose Black population then numbered in the thousands, and Mishawaka's corresponding number was in the dozens. The protest of 2020, small as it was, is the first such event in this city's record that the sources reached document at all — and it belongs to the era after the community's modern growth, which is when this record's Mishawaka story, demographically, begins to resemble other cities'.
Sources
- Marek Mazurek, "Car drives through crowd at Mishawaka protest, injuring one person," South Bend Tribune, 6 July 2020 — via the George Floyd protests in Indiana and vehicle-ramming compilations.
- South Bend black-history file — the 1967 shooting and the 1968 march of four thousand, whole. Boundary: South Bend's record, pointer here.