From the Archives: The Summer of 1934, When Minneapolis Stopped
A truckers' strike shut down commerce in the city, ended in violence on a downtown street, and remade American labor law.
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From the Archives
Minneapolis history retold from the record: the mills, the strikes, the bridges, the losses.
ArchivesFrom the Archives: The Explosion That Rebuilt the Milling Industry
In 1878, flour dust destroyed the largest mill in the world and killed eighteen men. The rebuilt industry made Minneapolis the flour capital of the planet.
ArchivesFrom the Archives: The Neighborhood the Interstate Erased
Construction of I-94 through Rondo destroyed a Black community in St. Paul. In Minneapolis, the same decade produced its own set of lines on a map.