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(http://www.startribune.com) <br />Xstaitittee Prejudice Blooms in Our Suburbs, Too <br />1N ar semi - rural Minneapolis suburban <br />..g people of the immediate neighbor- <br />hood and some list ant!• around. 11 drew <br />"leading citizens" in the Area. <br />No solid I•haiges were made against <br />the Negro hcrnil► whir•h wants to live in <br />the more oIrfin stenos niece of th,• r r'urr- <br />tr It wasn't claimed. for r•:u rnple. t hat <br />these people art, irre -,p,i rsihle, shirtless, <br />i1l.b havr�rt. It Aettially the man is a <br />mail carrier, ti vr•trrrrn of the last war, <br />and R good enough eredil risk to satisfy <br />a major Oh lank. But he's a Novo <br />(https:Qfvttrisev/ftacittE <br />This man s fiance neighbors have tt-Ir►hs#tt6F` % <br />to bribe hire not 1.o complete +h- twin- twin - <br />cities -cities - <br />It watt si1gg $ten Mao these. •aic ,i,, housirt ausing- <br />should look beyond the present rase, r toi- rules - <br />a resolution was proposed whereby 1 keep -keep - <br />present would promise each other iietilier the- <br />n sell their property to a Negro, in Alqtfo-metro{https:, <br />lion 1,1 ;declging a is rtatn amoIInt of i �� ie <br />to finance the rrrrront action. <br />This rnf.etieg, mind You, WAS not in 11rr <br />benighted deep south. li wis ii meeting <br />of tipper-middle-clasm, upper -educational - <br />level people of Minnetonka township. It <br />NI-atr A rlishARrtening thing to S F. <br />The editorial in the Minneapolis Star, which ran on Jan. 30,1952 <br />In addition to racial covenants, some of these subdivisions had other <br />requirements that are common in modern zoning codes. For example, Golden <br />Valley's West Tyrol Hills neighborhood, when approved in 1938, mandated <br />only single-family homes, with a garage, costing at least $7,500, according to <br />city planning commission meeting minutes. <br />As the other more racially explicit forms of housing discrimination were <br />outlawed, single-family zoning came into widespread use by the 1950s. <br />"Class prejudice and racial prejudice were so intertwined that when suburbs <br />adopted such ordinances, it was impossible to disentangle their motives and to <br />prove that zoning rules violated constitutional prohibitions on race <br />discrimination," Minneapolis -based public historian Denise Pike, who <br />researches racial housing discrimination, said in a League of Minnesota Cities <br />webinar (https://www.lmc.org/learning-events/previous-events/recorded- <br />webinars/facing-forward-series-part-one-systemic-racism-in-housing/) last <br />year on systemic racism in housing. "The basis of single-family zoning is so <br />tied to racial exclusion and today still excludes people of color." <br />