Minneapolis officials say they are working to nominate three sites at the heart of the city’s Black community to the National Register of Historic Places.
The city is nominating the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center and the former home of civil rights advocate Harry Davis, Sr.
The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder is the oldest Black-owned newspaper in Minnesota. It was founded in 1934 as the Minneapolis Spokesman and the St. Paul Recorder, which combined into a single publication in 2000. It remains one of the longest continuously operated family-owned Black newspapers in the country.
The Phyllis Wheatley Community Center has been providing community programs and services for 100 years in north Minneapolis. It opened in 1924 when young Black women who were barred from the dorms at the University of Minnesota raised funds to open a settlement house…