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BILL NO. 22-61 DEC 1 4 2022 <br />I <br />DAWN M.JONES <br />RESOLUTION NO. 4996-22 CITY CLERK. SOUTH BEND, IN <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF <br />SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, CALLING FOR REPARATORY JUSTICE <br />WHEREAS, the South Bend Common Council acknowledges that the 1851 Indiana <br />State Constitution expressly outlawed African Americans from residing in the State of Indiana; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, the South Bend Common Council acknowledges that the 1851 Indiana <br />State Constitution, Article 13, Section 1 reads: "No negro or mulatto shall come into or settle in <br />the State, after the adoption of this Constitution"; <br />and <br />WHEREAS,the South Bend Common Council acknowledges that one of the earliest <br />African American families to reside in the City did so illegally when, in 1858, Farrow and <br />Rebecca Powell permanently settled; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, the South Bend Common Council acknowledges that in the early 20th <br />Century, African Americans escaping racial violence in the Jim Crow South migrated to the City <br />in search of jobs as laborers, domestic workers, factory workers, service workers, among other <br />fields; <br />and <br />WHEREAS,the South Bend Common Council acknowledges that African American <br />migrants built resilient communities in a racially segregated City of South Bend despite terrible <br />challenges; <br />and <br />WHEREAS,the South Bend Common Council acknowledges that according to The <br />Chicago Tribune in 1923, the Ku Klux Klan drove an estimated 1,000 African American <br />residents from South Bend with threats of violence; <br />and <br />WHEREAS,the South Bend Common Council acknowledges from the 1930s until the <br />1950s, the City and local companies disposed of wasted hazardous materials in the LaSalle Park <br />Neighborhood, one of the few communities where African Americans could live due to racial <br />discrimination in housing and employment; <br />and <br />WHEREAS,the South Bend Common Council acknowledges that harmful toxins such <br />as asbestos, plating and paint wastes, solvents and oils, and arsenic-contaminated foundry sand <br />have been disposed of in this community; <br />and <br />WHEREAS,the South Bend Common Council acknowledges that Beck's Lake and <br />surrounding residential areas in the LaSalle Park Neighborhood were listed on the United States <br />Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List(NPL), which lists"sites of national <br />priority among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances,pollutants, or <br />contaminants throughout the United States and its territories"; <br />and