The state of unrest around the Twin Cities this past week has brought back memories of one of the most difficult times in the history of the state, the 1967 Plymouth Avenue riots in north Minneapolis.
Those riots, like the ones taking place around the death of George Floyd, led to the National Guard deploying more than 600 troops to the area where I had grown up.
The 1967 riots were also about racism in the state and took place in July around the Minneapolis Aquatennial Torchlight parade.
There had been riots the year before, as well.