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May 1924
This section's share of 1924 is the cross-reference, stated at its documented size: In May 1924, with the Ku Klux Klan at the height of its Indiana power, a Klan gathering in South Bend met the resistance of Notre Dame's students, and the confrontation in the city's streets became the best-known street episode of the Klan years here. The clash as an event — its days, its places and its settlement — is told in the Events section of this history; the Klan's power and presence in the city, the 1923 letter that warned Black South Bend of the Klan's coming and the flight it caused, are carried in the Black History section; and the Story of South Bend section carries the episode in the city's main line. It stands in this section's roster because any honest roster of this city's unrest begins with it — and stands at one paragraph because the Fort Wayne discipline of this project gives each fact one home.
Sources:
- The Events, Black History and spine sections of this history — the clash's telling, the Klan's Indiana ascendancy and the 1923 letter and flight, cross-referenced.