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History of Racism in MN

The Geography of Inequality

Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, TEDxMinneapolis (2018)
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George Floyd’s Death and the Long History of Racism in Minneapolis

Olivia Waxman, time.com (May 28, 2020)
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Jim Crow of the North

Minnesota Experience: A Twin Cities Documentary (PBS, 2019)
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The Lyncher In Me: A Search for Redemption in the Face of History

Warren Read (Borealis, 2008)
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The Lynchings in Duluth

Michael Fedo (2nd ed. – Minnesota Historical Society, 1993)
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The Mapping Prejudice Project

mappingprejudice.org

Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History

Gary Clayton Anderson (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019)
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The Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery

maahmg.org

Minnesota Compass

Wilder Foundation
mncompass.org

Picking Up the Pieces: A Minneapolis Case Study

ACLU
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