Crusaders for justice: a chronicle of protest by agitators, advocates and activists in their struggle for civil and human rights in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1802 through 1985

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McWatt, Arthur C

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A narrative of history that spans over a century locally and nationally. It begins with the first noted African American in Minnesota, George Bonga in the late 1700s to the newspaper publishing gia...

A narrative of history that spans over a century locally and nationally. It begins with the first noted African American in Minnesota, George Bonga in the late 1700s to the newspaper publishing giants and civil rights activists Editors J.Q. Adams, The Appeal and Cecil Newman, Minneapolis Spokesman & St. Paul Recorder. He notes the great lawyers of Frederick McGhee & W. T. Francis who helped sow the seeds of the NAACP with W.E.B. Dubois. It highlights the political elections and appointments of several key African American St. Paulites; and leaves us with the more current works of Nathaniel A. Khaliq of the St. Paul NAACP and community scholar-activist, Mahmoud El-Kati. It exposes the social umbilical cord of Minnesota s Civil and Human Rights molding-ground to its national offspring of personalities such as Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, Carl Stokes, Hubert Humphrey, and Walter Mondale.

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