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The St. Paul Echo was published by Earl Wilkins, brother of Roy Wilkins. The St. Paul chapter of the Urban League, the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, [15] the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center and many other community resources took form in Rondo. [16] [note 2] Black baseball remains an enduring part of the Rondo legacy.
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Many of St. Paul's neighborhoods began as rail-line commuter suburbs, including Merriam Park, St. Anthony Park, Macalester Park, Desnoyer Park, Hazel Park, Union Park, Warrendale, and Burlington Heights. [5] Burlington Heights was south of downtown along the Burlington's tracks to Hastings. The Heights had two train stations a mile apart.
In the 1950s, Debbie Montgomery, a former St. Paul City Council member and the first woman hired by the St. Paul Police Department, watched her parents thrive in the city's Rondo neighborhood. The ...
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Aug. 12—A multi-year engagement process with the community preceded the now-completed rebuild of a stretch of Dale Street between Iglehart and University avenues in St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood.
Rondo was the center of Saint Paul's African-American community since the Civil War, but was broken apart by the construction of Interstate 94 in the 1960s. [7] Famous Summit-University natives include baseball great Dave Winfield. Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in this neighborhood, although he is generally associated with the Summit Hill ...
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