JHarmon writes:  If memory serves, he [Fraser] was mayor when the
gentrification and segregation took place that resulted in poor 
minority people being steered toward the projects in the first place.

Steve Brandt:  The historical record shows that Sumner Field, the
original project, was segregated from the day it opened in 1938.  Whites
were housed on one end and blacks on the other.  See Hollman v.
Cisneros, 4-92-712, paragraphs 38-39


Steve Brandt
Star Tribune
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