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St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter used his annual State of the City address Monday to outline his vision for improving the economic health of residents, prioritizing investing in the streets, parks and people of St. Paul.
A deed to the property acquired by the district in 1923, includes the following language: “No person belonging to any race except the Caucasian, shall purchase or occupy the aforesaid premises or any part thereof.”
Russel Balenger was eight years old when a suspicious fire destroyed the 18-room house his family lived in at St. Anthony Avenue and Fisk Street, a rooming house of sorts that his parents ran for Black railroad workers. That was in 1958, not long before construction of Interstate 94 claimed what was left of his home and bore a literal cavity through the historically-Black Rondo neighborhood. ...