The link above is to the September 1946 article that exposed the institutionalized anti-Semitism in Minneapolis that partially caused Jewish migration to the suburbs and the creation of Jewish institutions such as Mount Sinai hospital.
We found this doing some research for History Day students. The library also owns McWilliams’ book, A mask for privilege: anti-Semitism in America.
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Most dispatches are from Ian Stade, a librarian at the James K. Hosmer Special Collections. Special Collections' Minneapolis History Collection covers an extensive array of materials on city history, including thousands of photographs, clippings, documents, books, programs, reports, yearbooks and hundreds of archival collections. Special Collections also houses several other collections on World War II, 19th century literature, the Abolitionist movement, Mark Twain, and the History of Books and Printing. You can visit Special Collections at the Minneapolis Central Library.
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