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Meeting the Neighbors
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“I never felt one ounce of discrimination... I never, of course, tried to join anything where I couldn’t belong... The only discrimination I ever felt in my life was when four of us came down from Virginia to the University [of Minnesota] here and two of us decided to join sororities. And, of course, we were going to join the same sorority, and I couldn’t, so the four of us put our heads together. We can’t figure out why four lovely girls... Gretchen had to come over and explain to us. If you were Jewish, you joined AEPhi or SDT, and if you were gentile you joined just anything. We didn’t know that... We had no idea.”
Audra Keller Garvis, oral history, 1983. Garvis grew up in Virginia, MN in the 1950s, before leaving for college at the University of Minnesota. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
top photo: Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority, Minneapolis, 1946. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
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