Northside Stories: Shared History, Shared Promise
The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) and the National Council of Jewish Women MN (NCJW) present: Northside Stories: Shared History, Shared Promise — a virtual event exploring the history and relationship of Jews and African Americans in North Minneapolis.
Join us for a conversation with Jewish and African American northsiders, activists, and historians for a look into the complexities of the past, with an eye toward building a better future, together.
Participants:
—Earl Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Social Justice, Religion, and Middle East Studies, Hamline University
—Enzi Tanner, Community Safety Organizer, Jewish Community Action
—Sondra Samuels, President & CEO, Northside Achievement Zone
Moderator:
—Sam Graber, Host, American Refugee Podcast
North Minneapolis has a long history of welcoming marginalized groups. Minority communities settled on the Northside in the late 19th- and early 20th-century because it was one of the few areas that allowed them to rent or own homes due to redlining and racial covenants. Jews and African Americans were two such groups. But despite sharing this home for many decades, the divide between ethnic and religious communities made its mark on the Northside. During the 1940s and 1950s the divide became more permanent, seeing hundreds of Jews move with a desire to leave the urban core, made possible by the easing of housing restrictions. With the escalating tension and violence of the Civil Rights Era, the migration of Jews to the suburbs continued and today we see little evidence of that shared history or those relationships.
Register here.
