HENNEPIN COUNTY: MINNEAPOLIS:

Under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, Minneapolis was chosen in November 1967 as one of sixty-three cities nationwide to participate in the federally sponsored Demonstration Cities (Model Cities) Program. The program's goal was to implement a total attack approach on the social, economic, and physical problems of a specific area of the city. With funding from the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD), The Minneapolis Model City Program concentrated its efforts in a mixed racial area south of the central business district (the "Whittier Neighborhood") that suffered from high unemployment, crime, poverty, and housing and educational deficiencies. The program worked with the community to improve the areas of manpower and job development, economic and business development, transportation, communication, housing, environmental protection, recreation and culture, health, education, social services, and crime and delinquency. Funding for the program was abolished in 1975.

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The records document the policies, decisions, and day-to-day activities of the program and its relationship with numerous government units and private social service organizations active in the program area. They include correspondence, minutes and motions of the executive board and policy and planning bodies, subcommittee and core group files, reports, memos, election materials, newsletter, policy statements, monthly and staff work reports, and subject files.

Topics covered in the records include early care, day care, funding, unemployment, health care, career opportunities and programs, impact of the Model City Program, citizen participation, communications, elections, Indian agencies, youth, senior citizens, the Whittier area, planning, education, personnel, and the human environment.

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and folder title here]. Minneapolis (Minn.). Model City Program Records. Minnesota Historical Society. State Archives.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number(s): 992-119 995-71; 2018-9

Processing Information:

Catalog ID No.: 1730126

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"The Paper" for the Model Neighborhood, issued by the Minneapolis Model City Communications Center, is available on microfilm (cataloged separately).

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Aged -- Services for -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Assisting.

Child care services -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

City planning -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Crime prevention -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Day care centers -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Economic assistance, Domestic -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Elections -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Environmental protection -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Housing policy -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Social conditions.

Juvenile delinquency -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Prevention.

Minneapolis Model City Program.

Occupational training -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Primary health care -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Social service -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Citizen participation.

Social service -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Finance.

Unemployed -- Services for -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Unemployment -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Urban renewal -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Vocational guidance -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Youth -- Services for -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Places:

Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Economic conditions.

Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Social conditions.

Whittier Neighborhood (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Organizations:

Deaconess Hospital (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association.

Kenny Rehabilitation Institute.

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota.

Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities Area.

Minneapolis Aged and Opportunity Center.

National Model Cities Directors Association.

Northwestern Hospital.

United States. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.

United States. Model Cities Administration.

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