The Natatorium Project, August 2005

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First page of a treatise by David Healey propsoing to transform the former Engman Public Natatorium into a home for the IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center. 

Many of the participants in the Center’s Oral History project talked about discrimination at the old Engman Natatorium.

David Healey, the first Center historian, was one of the early proponents of converting the Natatorium into a home for the Civil Rights Heritage Center.

The Natatorium Project