Part 4/4 Antisemitism and racism in Minneapolis - Minneapolis in the 20th Century

Antisemitism and racism in Minneapolis. From the "Capital of Antisemitism" in the U.S. in the 1930s, to change and reinvention on the road to racial and religious tolerance with Mayor Hubert Humphrey and the Fair Employment Practices Commission in post World War II Minneapolis.

Also discussed, Minneapolis rediscovers it's riverfront.

Talk at the Mill City Museum on Jan 14th 2010 by author Iric Nathanson about the checkered history of Minneapolis based on his new book, "Minneapolis in the 20th Century: The Growth of an American City."

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Iric Nathanson
• book
• Minneapolis
• Mill City Museum
• Minnesota Historical Society
• History
• racism
• Antisemitism
• religious intolerance
• 1930s

[Glldas]

interesting...

[Teigen64]

Minnesota hasn't always been so nice.