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Tested as corporations, the three named leagues all exist — and all three are South Bend corporations serving the county, with no line of any of them in the Osceola register. The NAACP's county line begins in 1919, when the South Bend branch was founded at the church that housed Mount Zion Baptist, the city's first African American Baptist congregation, on the Civil Rights Heritage Center's landmark record. The League of Women Voters of the South Bend Area carries a local line from 1920, a documented silence from 1966 to 1969 with no known presidents or activities on record, and a formal restart on December 15, 1969, in the league's own published history — a corporate course with a lapse and a refounding, told whole because the checklist's class asks for courses, not mentions. The Urban League of South Bend and St. Joseph County stands in the county's civil-rights archive as a working corporation by the early 1960s — an on-the-job training project fact sheet of November 1962 and an executive director's State of the League address of February 1966 both survive in the Indiana University South Bend collection. The checklist's template carries a 1951 federal ruling and a building line and a fade for the league class; those particulars belong to the South Bend build's record and are not re-derived here. What this ground's test establishes is the seating: the register read whole for the Osceola post office contains no NAACP line, no League of Women Voters line, and no Urban League line, at any ruling date. Its one league-class entry is the Progress Club of South Bend, a county-seat league standing at an Osceola mailing address and printed as such in the banked file — a postal-ring entry, not a town corporation. Osceola residents were served by, and no doubt belonged to, the county leagues; the corporations themselves were never seated here, and the leg prints them at boundary size rather than borrowing them.
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