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LEG 27 · ITEM 9 · RUN B #136 · THE CIVIL RIGHTS HERITAGE CENTER TEST
The county holds one museum seated inside its own subject, and the fit is exact: the Engman Public Natatorium at 1040 West Washington Street, South Bend — the city's first public swimming pool, opened 1922 — barred African Americans entirely from 1922 to 1936 and admitted them only on segregated terms from 1936 until full integration in 1950; the pool closed in 1978 and the building stood derelict for three decades. The IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center, formed on campus in 2000 to document the area's civil-rights history, led the campaign that returned the building to use as its own home: on 23 May 2010 the natatorium was dedicated as the Civil Rights Heritage Center, whose permanent exhibition tells the history of the struggle over that very pool — a "living museum," in the university's own description, preserving the building's story in the building. The city designated the natatorium a locally protected historic landmark in 2018. No equivalent seat exists on this ground: no social-history museum in Osceola or Penn Township occupies a building that is itself its subject, in any record reached — the test's local half is negative, and the county half is this one building, at boundary size, its whole the South Bend build's.
Verdict, item 9 — DUG (boundary positive; local negative printed).
Sources: IU South Bend, Civil Rights Heritage Center pages and IU Archives collection record (formed 2000; reopening led from 2005; opened May 2010); Clio entry (dedication 23 May 2010; local landmark 2018); Engman Public Natatorium record (exclusion 1922–1936, segregation to 1950, closed 1978). Searches run 11 Nov 2026.