African Americans In Minnesota

Author : David Vassar Taylor
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873514203

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African Americans in Minnesota by David Vassar Taylor Pdf

While making up a smaller percentage of Minnesota's population compared to national averages, African Americans have had a profound influence on the history and culture of the state from its earliest days to the present. Author David Taylor chronicles the rich history of Blacks in the state through careful analysis of census and housing records, newspaper records, and first-person accounts. He recounts the triumphs and struggles of African Americans in Minnesota over the past 200 years in a clear and concise narrative. Major themes covered include settlement by Blacks during the territorial and early statehood periods; the development of urban Black communities in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth; Blacks in rural areas; the emergence of Black community organizations and leaders in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; and Black communities in transition during the turbulent last half of the twentieth century. Taylor also introduces influential and notable African Americans: George Bonga, the first African American born in the region during the fur trade era; Harriet and Dred Scott, whose two-year residence at Fort Snelling in the 1830s later led to a famous, though unsuccessful, legal challenge to the institution of slavery; John Quincy Adams, publisher of the state's first Black newspaper; Fredrick L. McGhee, the state's first Black lawyer; community leaders, politicians, and civil servants including James Griffin, Sharon Sayles Belton, Alan Page, Jean Harris, and Dr. Richard Green; and nationally influential artists including August Wilson, Lou Bellamy, Prince, Jimmy Jam, and Terry Lewis. African Americans in Minnesota is the fourth book in The People of Minnesota, a series dedicated to telling the history of the state through the stories of its ethnic groups in accessible and illustrated paperbacks.

Author : Nora Murphy,Mary Murphy-Gnatz
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873513807

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African Americans in Minnesota by Nora Murphy,Mary Murphy-Gnatz Pdf

Stories of the lives and times of nine African-American children and adults whose contributions to Minnesota's history span nearly two centuries, from the early 1800s to the present day.

Author : Anthony R. Scott,Charles E. Crutchfield,Minnesota's Black Community Project,Chaunda L. Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 168134131X

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Minnesota's Black Community in the 21st Century by Anthony R. Scott,Charles E. Crutchfield,Minnesota's Black Community Project,Chaunda L. Scott Pdf

An inspiring celebration of the accomplishments of African American professionals in Minnesota, highlighting the contributions of individuals and organizations in a wide range of fields.

Author : Walter R. Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1681340607

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The Scott Collection by Walter R. Scott Pdf

Author : David Vassar Taylor
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873516532

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African Americans in Minnesota by David Vassar Taylor Pdf

A chronicle of the rich history of Blacks in the state through careful analysis of census and housing records, newspaper records, and first-person accounts.

Author : Alexs D. Pate,Pamela R. Fletcher
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780873519748

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Blues Vision by Alexs D. Pate,Pamela R. Fletcher Pdf

"A rich Minnesota literary tradition is brought into the spotlight in this groundbreaking collection of incisive prose and powerful poetry by forty- three black writers who educate, inspire, and reveal the unabashed truth. Historically significant figures tell their stories, demonstrating how much and how little conditions have changed: Gordon Parks hitchhikes to Bemidji, Taylor Gordon describes his first day as a chauffeur in St. Paul, and Nellie Stone Johnson insists on escaping the farm for high school in Minneapolis. A profusionof modern voices-- poet Tish Jones, playwright Kim Hines, and memoirist Frank Wilderson-- reflect the dizzying, complex realities of the present. Showcasing the unique vision and reality of Minnesota's African American community from the Harlem renaissance through the civil rights movement, from the black power movement to the era of hip- hop and the time of America's first black president, this compelling anthology provides an explosion of artistic expression about what it means to be a Minnesotan. Alexs Pate, an award- winning novelist, playwright, and writing professor, is the president of Innocent Technologies, LLC. Pamela R. Fletcher is associate professor of English at St. Catherine University. J. Otis Powell!? is a poet, performance artist, and curator working in an aesthetic rooted in Afrocentric lore and culture"--

Author : William D. Green
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873516907

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A Peculiar Imbalance by William D. Green Pdf

Unearths previously untold stories of African Americans in early Minnesota.

Author : Frank M. White
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781681340050

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They Played for the Love of the Game by Frank M. White Pdf

A century before Kirby Puckett led the Minnesota Twins to World Series championships, Minnesota was home to countless talented African American baseball players, yet few of them are known to fans today. During the many decades that Major League Baseball and its affiliates imposed a strict policy of segregation, black ballplayers in Minnesota were relegated to a haphazard array of semipro leagues, barnstorming clubs, and loose organizations of all-black teams—many of which are lost to history. They Played for the Love of the Game recovers that history by sharing stories of African American ballplayers in Minnesota, from the 1870s to the 1960s, through photos, artifacts, and spoken histories passed through the generations. Author Frank White’s own father was one of the top catchers in the Twin Cities in his day, a fact that White did not learn until late in life. While the stories tell of denial, hardship, and segregation, they are highlighted by athletes who persevered and were united by their love of the sport.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : African Americans
ISBN : WISC:89058631235

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Minnesota's Black Community by Anonim Pdf

This reference books focuses on understanding the role of the African American worker in Minnesota, with historical information crucial to an understanding of the state and its growth. Its goal is to help white Minnesotans learn about the contributions of their fellow Black citizens, which the editor believes is a major cause in racial problems and misunderstandings.

Author : William D. Green
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452957395

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The Children of Lincoln by William D. Green Pdf

How white advocates of emancipation abandoned African American causes in the dark days of Reconstruction, told through the stories of four Minnesotans White people, Frederick Douglass said in a speech in 1876, were “the children of Lincoln,” while black people were “at best his stepchildren.” Emancipation became the law of the land, and white champions of African Americans in the state were suddenly turning to other causes, regardless of the worsening circumstances of black Minnesotans. Through four of these “children of Lincoln” in Minnesota, William D. Green’s book brings to light a little known but critical chapter in the state’s history as it intersects with the broader account of race in America. In a narrative spanning the years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the lives of these four Minnesotans mark the era’s most significant moments in the state, the Midwest, and the nation for the Republican Party, the Baptist church, women’s suffrage, and Native Americans. Morton Wilkinson, the state’s first Republican senator; Daniel Merrill, a St. Paul business leader who helped launch the first Black Baptist church; Sarah Burger Stearns, founder and first president of the Minnesota Woman Suffragist Association; and Thomas Montgomery, an immigrant farmer who served in the Colored Regiments in the Civil War: each played a part in securing the rights of African Americans and each abandoned the fight as the forces of hatred and prejudice increasingly threatened those hard-won rights. Moving from early St. Paul and Fort Snelling to the Civil War and beyond, The Children of Lincoln reveals a pattern of racial paternalism, describing how even “enlightened” white Northerners, fatigued with the “Negro Problem,” would come to embrace policies that reinforced a notion of black inferiority. Together, their lives—so differently and deeply connected with nineteenth-century race relations—create a telling portrait of Minnesota as a microcosm of America during the tumultuous years of Reconstruction.

Author : William D. Green
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452944432

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Degrees of Freedom by William D. Green Pdf

The true story, and the black citizens, behind the evolution of racial equality in Minnesota He had just given a rousing speech to a packed assembly in St. Paul, but Frederick Douglass, confidant to the Great Emancipator and conscience of the Republican Party, was denied a hotel room because he was black. This was Minnesota in 1873, four years after the state had approved black suffrage—a state where “freedom” meant being unshackled from slavery but not social restrictions, where “equality” meant access to the ballot but not to a restaurant downtown. Spanning the half-century after the Civil War, Degrees of Freedom draws a rare picture of black experience in a northern state and of the nature of black discontent and action within a predominantly white, ostensibly progressive society. William D. Green reveals little-known historical characters among the black men and women who moved to Minnesota following the Fifteenth Amendment; worked as farmhands and laborers; built communities (such as Pig’s Eye Landing, later renamed St. Paul), businesses, and a newspaper (the Western Appeal); and embodied the slow but inexorable advancement of race relations in the state over time. Within this absorbing, often surprising, narrative we meet “ordinary” citizens, like former slave and early settler Jim Thompson and black barbers catering to a white clientele, but also personages of national stature, such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. Du Bois, all of whom championed civil rights in Minnesota. And we see how, in a state where racial prejudice and oppression wore a liberal mask, black settlers and entrepreneurs, politicians, and activists maneuvered within a restricted political arena to bring about real and lasting change.

Author : Chad Montrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1681342111

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Whiteness in Plain View by Chad Montrie Pdf

A look at the broad and long-lasting efforts by white Minnesotans to exclude African Americans from enjoying fundamental rights and opportunities in order to privilege certain citizens over others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1681340941

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Double Exposure by Anonim Pdf

A rare and intimate look at Minnesota's African American community in postwar America through the lens of a pioneering black photographer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 168134064X

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Sights, Sounds, Soul by Anonim Pdf

A photographic celebration of musicians, artists, and everyday scenes from the Twin Cities African American community of the 1970s and '80s by a renowned local photographer.

Author : Michael Eric Dyson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816621439

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Reflecting Black by Michael Eric Dyson Pdf

From rap music to preaching, from Toni Morrison to Leonard Jeffries, from Michael Jackson to Michael Jordan, "Reflecting Black" explores the varied and complex dimensions of African-American culture. Through personal reflection, expository journalism, scholarly investigation, and even a sermon, Michael Eric Dyson grapples with and celebrates the diverse cultural expressions of contemporary black intellectuals, athletes, musicians, scholars, ministers, politicians, and activists, while at the same time probing and exposing the social and political realities of black cultural production. "Reflecting Black" investigates contemporary gospel music, the films of Spike Lee and John Singleton, contemporary grass roots leadership, Malcolm X, the books about the nature of the heroism of Martin Luther King, and the controversies arising from the Central Park jogger case. Pushing beyond insular debates about "positive" and "negative" treatments of black life, Dyson's work is both appreciative and critical in its assessment of the insights and blindnesses, as well as the strengths and weaknesses, of contemporary black culture. Michael Eric Dyson won the 1992 National Magazine Award for Black Journalists. His writing has appeared in many books, journals, newspapers and magazines. This book is intended for academics in the fields of cultural studies, African-American studies and American studies.