Rondo Days
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Rondo Days is an annual festival held the 3rd Saturday in July in Saint Paul, Minnesota, that commemorates the Rondo neighborhood, an African-American community that was split in two by the construction of Interstate 94 in the mid-1960s. The festival has grown since its inception in 1982, by co-founders Floyd G. Smaller and Marvin R. Anderson, to become the largest African American sponsored festival in Minnesota.[1]
The construction of Highway 94 through St. Paul in the 1960s destroyed several neighborhoods including Rondo - the backbone of the black community in the Twin Cities. Every July, Rondo days celebrate that community via an annual multi-cultural reunion, started in 1983.[2][3]
With officials scrapping the 2020 festival caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 37th was deferred to 2021.
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