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Investigating and accident on Plymouth Avenue at 1602 Plymouth Ave. in front of Erma's Beauty Shop. Minneapolis, 1966.

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Supporters of the St. Paul Teachers Strike for Better Wages on November 27, 1946. The photo at Maxfield School includes two students, Grace Carlson a member of the PTA, Rev. Clarence Nelson of the Camphor Memorial Methodist church, and Milton Siegel of the United Packing House Workers (CIO).

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Members of the Hennepin County Youth Congress including University of Minnesota students, war veterans, mothers, and children march in the parade sponsored by the youth congress to demonstrate against war and fascism on Memorial Day, May 31, 1935, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Hennepin Avenue and 8th Street Esteblishments in the photo include Borklin's Bar, Cafe Di Napoli, Rift Sport, and Stengel Victor School of Ballet. This is currently the location of the Skyway Theater.

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Police in Trumbull Park, South Deering Chicago, responding to racial disturbances in November 1955. White residents violently attacked and attempted to evict the family of Black WWII veterans moving in.

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Young Lord protest Police Brutality, Humboldt Park, Chicago May 13, 1969. On May 4th, 1969 Chicago police shot and killed Manuel Ramos, a member of the Young Lords Party, outside of the apartment of another member of the Young Lords. The Young Lords protest aimed at exposed CPD efforts at cover up.

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Puerto Rican Heritage Festival, Armitage Methodist Church, Chicago, Illinois. August 23, 1969.

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Young Lords children’s program painting at 834 W Armitage in Chicago, August 21, 1969.

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Anti-War Protestors at the University of Minnesota, 1941.

Franklin Junior High Health Demonstration, 1948.

3rd Floor stacks, Minneapolis Public Library archives, Special Collections Department. (Undated)

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Looking down Hennepin Avenue from the Roof of the Main Library, 1956.

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Business and Municipal Library of the Minneapolis Public Library, 1946.

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Minneapolis Public Library Online Catalog, 1991.

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View of the Northwestern National Life Building from Central Library, Minneapolis, undated.

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Don't Put Anything Back Survey in the Minneapolis Public Library, 1983.

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Franklin Junior High School, North Minneapolis, 1936.

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Chris Getowicz @cgetowicz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Bookmobile at Minneapolis Central Library, 1968.

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Urban Renewal and Public Housing in Minneapolis, 1968. from the Special Collections of the Hennepin County Library.

Chris Getowicz @cgetowicz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Found this picture of Stand Rock intellectual and activist Vine Deloria Jr. in his papers at the Yale archives.

Chris Getowicz @cgetowicz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The summer reading group books are in! Excited to read Andrew Diamond’s Mean Streets with our Education Justice Project students at Danville Correctional Center this summer.

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Chris Getowicz @cgetowicz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Recently enjoyed seeing my students participate in the Undergraduate Research Symposium here on campus, one of my favorite events of the year. It is always inspiring and rewarding to see all the outstanding work students are doing.

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Chris Getowicz @cgetowicz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

St. Paul Teachers Strike for Better Wages, high school students marching on downtown St. Paul (MN) December 11, 1946.

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Chris Getowicz @cgetowicz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Batione Hotel, in Cedar-Riverside (607 19th Ave. S), taken by Bonnie Miller as part of the Urban Arts program of Minneapolis Public Schools in 1973.

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Chris Getowicz @cgetowicz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Map of Model City area, Southside Minneapolis, 1970, an area subjected to intense urban renewal and interstate construction throughout the postwar decades. Note “New South High” (bottom right) and Central High (34th and Clinton) for those familiar with the area and its history.

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Chris Getowicz @cgetowicz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Really enjoying Rashad Shabazz’s new book on Prince (Race, Place, and Music)