Resources

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• Frogtown Neighborhood Profile       
• Summit-University Neighborhood Profile
• Frogtown brochure     
• Remember Rondo: A Tradition of Excellence
• Remembering Rondo (the Historical name for Summit-University)
• Rondo a thriving African-American cultural center        

Videos

• Interstate 94: A History & Its Impact
• Remembering Rondo with Marvin Anderson
• Rondo: Beyond the Pavement

Books

• "Frogtown: Photographs and Conversations in an Urban Neighborhood," by Wing Young Huie, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1996.
• "Where We Live,'' by Judith Martin and David Lanegran, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1983.
• "St. Paul: The First 150 years," by Virginia Brainard Kunz, The Saint Paul Foundation, 1991
• “Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint Paul's Historic Black Community,” by Kateleen Jill Hope Cavett and David Vassar Taylor, Syren Book Company, 2005
• “The Days of Rondo,” Evelyn Fairbanks, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1990

Who’s Who From FSU

• LeRoy Neiman, artist
• Jim Lange, original TV host of "The Dating Game"
• Frederick McGhee, first black criminal lawyer west of the Mississippi River
• Warren Spannaus, former Minnesota attorney general
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer
• Dave Winfield, Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder
• Charles M. Schultz, author of the Peanuts comic strip
• Gordon Parks, photographer, filmmaker, and writer
• Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube
• Cy Thao, first Hmong-American politician to serve as a Representative in the legislature
• Toni Carter, first African-American to serve as a Ramsey County Commissioner in Minnesota