Tues with a Scholar: A Campus Divided: Progressives, Anticommunists, Racism and Antisemitism at the U of M from 1930-1943
From 1930 until 1942, the University of Minnesota was at the center of state and global conflicts about war and student rights. Newly emerging student movements protested policies of suppression of student rights, exclusion of African Americans from taxpayer-funded student housing, and the segregation of both Jewish and Black students from campus life. Join Riv-Ellen Prell, Emerita Professor of American Studies and past Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota, for the story of what happened and how it continues to affect the present day.
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Increased awareness of an important era of Minnesota history; enhanced recognition of the library as a cultural center for the community.
From 1930 until 1942, the University of Minnesota was at the center of state and global conflicts about war and student rights. Newly emerging student movements protested policies of suppression of student rights, exclusion of African Americans from taxpayer-funded student housing, and the segregation of both Jewish and Black students from campus life. Patrons joined Riv-Ellen Prell, Emerita Professor of American Studies and past Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota, for the story of what happened and how it continues to affect the present day.
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