Arthur and Edith Lee Minnesota history reveals how racial covenants fueled segregation that still impacts neighborhoods today.
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Black history Minneapolis school integration is the focus of a new children’s book sharing a powerful local story.
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The Our First Bus Ride book launch revisits Minneapolis school integration through children’s storytelling and community reflection. buff.ly/ba8sG96
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South Minneapolis honored Henry and Clementine Robinson with a new headstone for Clementine and a community tribute to their legacy. Research, remembrance, and Black history preserved. Read more: buff.ly/Kx1mEDJ
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After 60 years, Clementine Robinson finally received her long-overdue grave marker — a moment of healing and remembrance.
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Minneapolis is rethinking how to engage the public in historic resource nominations as newspaper readership declines—what new strategies are on the table?
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I personally enjoy the mental image of stuffy men in suits scrambling to catch the rogue squirrels.
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A horizontal diptych shot from roughly the same location on the south side of Washington Avenue near Church Street on the U of M campus in Minneapolis, facing downtown. The left image was shot in the 1950s, and the right in the 2020s. The left image shows two trolleys and a bus on the south side fo Washington Avenue, with a pedestrian bridge in the middle distance and the Foshay Tower on the horizon. People are walking out onto Washington Avenue to board the nearer trolley, which is numbered 1300. The right image shows the yellow-and blue light-rail train of two cars passing under a pedestrian bridge and partially obscured by power pylons. The Foshay Tower is lost amidst newer buildings downtown.
In the 1950s Minneapolis had trolley cars, in the 2020s it has light rail. During the years between this same stretch of street was a hazardous high traffic zone thru the U of M campus that regularly killed or injured students. #trolley #transit #masstransit […]
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The Washington Avenue Viaduct existed for a century and was known as the “Minneapolis Death Trap” due to flooding, crime, and unsafe road conditions. After decades of debating over how to improve it, the train company decided they no longer needed the bridge in
1984. #MinneapolisHistory
