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.
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..
Richard Green; and nationally influential artists including August Wilson, Lou Bellamy, Prince, Jimmy Jam, and Terry Lewis.
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.
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.
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.
Major themes covered include settlement by Blacks during the territorial and early statehood periods; the development of urban Black communities in St.
He recounts the triumphs and struggles of African Americans in Minnesota over the past 200 years in a clear and concise narrative.
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.
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
