Tonight we’ll walk over to the Guthrie for ”A Raisin In The Sun” where a Black family buys a house in a whites-only neighborhood.
The playwright based the story on her own experience of growing up in 1930’s Chicago; it was first performed on Broadway in 1959.
1930’s Minneapolis was no better as this 2020 micropost shows.
Included the Arthur and Edith Lee House on a cycle ride. In 1931, the black couple bought this house in what was a whites-only neighborhood. Each night, thousands of angry white people protested outside while throwing rocks and excrement at the house. Read more here.
You can read more about the events of 1931 here.