Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center Oral History Project


[Lynn Coleman]: I grew up on the Lake. We knew it then as BeckÕs Lake, the dump, the swamp. We know it as LaSalle Park now. This is home for me. 

And as a kid, it was fun. We were poor, but didnÕt realize it because everybody was. So, when I was a kid in the area that I lived in, the back of Kenmore Street was the start of a dump. A city dump. ThatÕs where we played at, that was our life.