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When slender, white-haired Benjamin E. Youngdahl (brother of Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl) came to St. Louis in 1945 as dean of Washington University's School of Social Work, he swore that in five years he'd "win an end to the ban on Negroes ... or go elsewhere...
...last week Ben Youngdahl had beaten his deadline. Washington's undergraduate school is still closed to Negroes, but eight were enrolled for the spring semester at the School of Social Work, and one more slat had been kicked out of the cultural fence which separates St. Louis' whites from its Negroes...
...Youngdahl's victory was not quite so epochal as it would have been farther down the Mississippi. Ever since the Civil War, when pitched street battles ended with St. Louis in Northern control, the city has lived with a border city's uneasy conscience on racial issues. In recent years the St. Louis color line has been breached repeatedly by educators...
This was too much for Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl. Next day, on his orders, about 2,500 National Guardsmen, swiftly mobilized in rural areas, moved into South St. Paul, Newport and Albert Lea, where there had been some slugging. It was the first time in 14 years that Minnesota's militia had been called to keep strike order...
...several pickets who tried to block workers' cars. Then, with bayonets prodding those who did not step lively, the militiamen cleared more than a mile of Concord Street of all bystanders. The guardsmen swarmed around Minnesota's marble-domed Capitol as strikers went to protest to Governor Youngdahl. Said the governor: "You can't win a strike by anarchy . . . Have a little faith that I am working for you . . . Keep your shirts...