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In 1886, when Martha Ripley founded Maternity Hospital for both married and unmarried mothers, Minneapolis made changes to rectify discrimination against unmarried women.[36] Known initially as a kindly physician, mayor Doc Ames made his brother police chief, ran the city into corruption, and tried to leave town in 1902.[37] Lincoln Steffens published Ames's story in "The Shame of Minneapolis" in 1903.[38] Minneapolis has a long history of structural racism[39] and has large racial disparities in housing, income, health care, and education.[40][41] Some historians and commentators have said White Minneapolitans used discrimination based on race against the city's non-White residents. As White settlers displaced the indigenous population during the 19th century, they claimed the city's land,[42] and Kirsten Delegard of Mapping Prejudice explains that today's disparities evolved from control of the land.[41] In 1910, Minneapolis "was not a particularly segregated place".[41] Discrimination increased when flour milling moved to the east coast and the economy declined.[43] During the early 20th century, bigotry presented in several ways. In 1910, a Minneapolis developer wrote restrictive covenants based on race and ethnicity into his deeds. Other developers copied the practice, preventing Asian and African Americans from owning or leasing certain properties. Though such language was prohibited by state law in 1953 and by the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968, restrictive covenants against minorities remained in many Minneapolis deeds as recently as 2021, when the city gave residents a means to remove them.[44][45] The Ku Klux Klan entered family life but was only effectively a force in the city from 1921 until 1923.[46] The gangster Kid Cann engaged in bribery and intimidation between the 1920s and the 1940s.[47] After Minnesota passed a eugenics law in 1925, the proprietors of Eitel Hospital sterilized about 1,000 people at Faribault State Hospital.[48] From the end of World War I in 1918 until 1950, antisemitism was commonplace in Minneapolis—Carey McWilliams called the city the anti-Semitic capital of the United States.[49] A hate group called the Silver Legion of America held meetings in the city from 1936 to 1938.[50] In 1948, Mount Sinai Hospital opened as the city's first hospital to employ members of minority races and religions.[51][50] group of men holding pipes confronting police on street seen from above Battle between striking teamsters and police, Minneapolis general strike of 1934 During the financial downturn of the Great Depression, the violent Teamsters Strike of 1934 led to laws acknowledging workers' rights.[52] Mayor Hubert Humphrey helped the city establish fair employment practices and