Community Advisor & Research Advisor
A Public History of 35W
Hastings, Minnesota
Born in North Carolina to a sharecropper, Dr. Lloyd’s life was shaped by the Civil Rights movement. He graduated with a BA; ST. Augustine U., MA from Iowa State and Doctorate from Hamline U. were he wrote his groundbreaking dissertation "How Routing an Interstate Highway Through South Minneapolis Disrupted an African-American Neighborhood." While writing his dissertation, he was employed at MnDOT for nearly 40 years in Civil Rights and Administration. His research focused on the impact I-35W had upon an African American middle-class community; South Minneapolis in the 1960s. He is co-curator of Human Toll: A Public History of 35W.
SAT-B09: Human Tolls: Building a Public History of a Community Divided by I-35W
Saturday, October 28, 2023
2:00pm – 3:15pm CT