Perspective: Will Minneapolis learn from the failed handling of its last uprising?
“to take the handcuffs off the police.” Indeed, the Times pointed out that the new mayor was “a policeman, committed to strengthening the power of the police” in a city wracked with racial tensions. On election night, the openly religious Stenvig called for morality and order in public life and crowed that “my chief adviser is going to be God.”
to confine African Americans to only two small areas of the city. Stenvig’s anti-establishment approach even attracted white voters who otherwise ignored municipal elections.— a new iteration of white supremacy — now animated voters. Naftalin’s effort to bring business executives and experts together with young African American leaders and civil rights organizations in the wake of the 1967 unrest had threatened the racial status quo and alienated many whites in the city.
Stenvig lost in 1973 to his Democratic opponent. Yet voters returned him to the mayor’s office for a third term in 1975. By then, Stenvig’s calls for Christian morality in public life sparked a new municipal focus on pornographic bookstores and, in particular, the people who frequented them as a rare safe space. Stenvig’s political career finally came to an end when he lost the 1977 mayoral election. The police effort toStenvig did more than embody white backlash politics in Minneapolis.
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