About Frogtown / Summit-University
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Bethel / Frogtown and Summit-University Community Partnership
About Frogtown/Summit-University
Summit-University Neighborhood Profile
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
Books
Some titles available through Amazon.com
- "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