The Making of Segregated Education—Minneapolis, 1945–1972

• In Event: "Get Out": Disrupting Education via Space, Race, and Policy in the 20th Century

Abstract

In May 1972 the Minneapolis Public School were found to be racially segregated in a case brought in the district court by the NAACP. For a decade after Minneapolis Public Schools were placed under judicial oversight in order to desegregate city schools. This research looks at the decades before court intervention to examine the ways segregation was a product of housing urban renewal, and school policies. Utilizing primary source materials from archives of the Hennepin History Museum, Minneapolis Public Library, and Minnesota Historical Society this research finds the school segregation in Minneapolis was the result of liberal policy makers decisions between the Post-war era and NAACP litigation in 1972.

Author

• Christopher J. Getowicz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign