The Story of Black Migration to Minneapolis

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Tim Tyson: When we got to Wisconsin people heard or accident they heard the South in our voices. In both states, a lot of white folks got alarmed by a relatively modest influx of lower income black folk. It doesn't make any difference where they are from, if they are poor, but it is a poverty issue and very, very often it's an African-American issue.

When it comes to America’s racial sins, past and present, a lot of us see people in one region of the country as guiltier than the rest. Host John Biewen spoke with some white Southern friends about that tendency. Part Six of our ongoing series, Seeing White. With recurring guest, Chenjerai Kumanyika.

Image: A lynching on Clarkson Street, New York City, during the Draft Riots of 1863. Credit: Greenwich Village Society of Historical Preservation.

Shannon Sullivan’s books, Revealing Whiteness and Good White People.

Thanks to Chris Julin, whose 1991 NPR report on the Wisconsin fishing rights dispute we featured.