A civil rights marker for Grand Forks
August 15, 2012 at 4:57 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Louis Armstrong’s surprising outburst on race relations in America while in Grand Forks for a 1957 concert should be commemorated here, a fan of the jazz great told the Historic Preservation Commission Tuesday. Continue Reading
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And Rick, 30% of Fargo, Bismarck, Minot, Sioux Falls & Mpls. use it too. Archie Bunker was from Qweens in NYC where 30% still use the N-word. Old news.
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The 5 boroughs of NYC are some of the most segregated in the country. In Brooklyn, Brownsville, East NY, and Bedford-Sty are all Black. Marine Park, Bay Ridge (where the Verrazano is) are all White. Boro Park is all Orthodox Jews (in fact, it’s called Little Jerusalem). If you do not “belong” there, you don’t go there.
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My relatives in rural ND from a generation before all used tht N-word as a generic term. Drove their kids crazy. I really don’t know if there was malice intended…it was the word they learned. Those who left the state didn’t (e.g., my parents never used it, though born and raised in ND). In my 26 years in GF, I’ve never heard the term, although I admit I don’t get around a lot.
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Surely there are many other things that happened in Grand Forks that could memorialized. Some natives of the state could probably be remembered through a memorial for all that they did in settling Dakota Territory. I was born and raised in New Orleans and Louie Armstrong was never thought of as more than good musician there. As for the N word, you hear blacks calling each other by that name all the time. But let a white man say it and you would think the sky is falling.
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Just a good musician? Is that why there is a large spectacularly landscaped Louis Armstrong Park on the edge of the French Quarter where the Mahalia Jackson concert Hall is located? You probably aren’t aware of it since you nothing about Louis Armstrong.
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GF has a miserable history in minority relations. A UND history student did his MA thesis on the KKK chapter in GF, which was made up by the city’s movers and shakers. That can be found in the Chester Fritz Library. Wonder why the Jewish cemetery is out on the corner of Gateway and Columbia? It’s because GF had an ordinance that prohibted the burial of Jews within the city limits…that plot was outside GF at the time.
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