%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°A Bigoted, Prejudiced, Hateful Little Area¡±: The Making of an All
%A Chad Montrie
%J Journal of Urban History
%@ 1552-6771
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0096144217702644
%X This article traces the history of Edina, Minnesota, a community just outside of Minneapolis, following its transformation from an interracial farming village in the late nineteenth century to a racially exclusive and prejudice-ridden ¡°streetcar¡± suburb by the 1930s. It also looks at the ordeal experienced by the first black family to move to the area, in 1960, demonstrating the challenges faced by the ¡°open housing¡± movement in what is known as a racially ¡°progressive¡± state. As a history of demographic change, the article suggests the need for a slightly revised Great Migration narrative, particularly when African Americans moved north and when and why some of the first migrants moved to cities. Likewise, it contributes to a literature showing how northern suburban communities became and remained all white for nearly a century and, more generally, how pervasive and intransigent racism was even among well-mannered, middle-class white Americans in the Deep North
%K suburbs
%K racial exclusion
%K housing discrimination
%K open housing
%K Great Migration
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096144217702644