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1922–2009 · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY)
Boundary — the study the community wrote of itself, cited as a source because this build cites it as one: the Reverend Buford F. Gordon, pastor of Taylor A.M.E. Zion Church from December 1920, published The Negro in South Bend: A Social Study himself in 1922 — a pastor's census and survey of his own community, counting 604 Black residents and recording their churches, work, housing and institutions from inside. It is the founding text of this county's Black historiography: the Reparatory Justice Commission's 2026 report leans on it (its 1890 figures stand behind the conflict printed in art-68-1), and the shelf it founded is the modern literature this section itself draws on — Lisa Swedarsky's A Place with Purpose (2009), Monica O'Dell's Our Day (2010), Gabrielle Robinson's Better Homes of South Bend (2015) and George Garner's Placing History (2023). Gordon's study was republished by Wolfson Press in 2009, edited by David Healey (ISBN 978-0-9799532-4-8), which is the form in which it circulates now. The Osceola share is a distinction, printed plainly: the town has its own community history — Kiracofe's, carried in the Heritage addendum — but it is a town history by the town's historian, not a study a subordinated community wrote of itself under the conditions Gordon wrote under; no Osceola counterpart to Gordon exists in the record, and the county's Black community wrote its scholarship in South Bend because that is where the community's institutions were.
Sources: Gordon, The Negro in South Bend: A Social Study (1922; Wolfson Press republication, 2009, ed. Healey); South Bend Reparatory Justice Commission, Final Report (2026), bibliography and citations; the modern shelf as catalogued in the Commission's and AALT's records.