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This Day in Minnesota History

January 21, 1891

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James K. Hilyard, an African American entrepreneur and intellectual, dies in St. Paul. In addition to being co-founder of the Western Appeal, one of Minnesota's first black-owned newspapers, Hilyard, by active recruitment through newspapers and personal connections, was largely responsible for the influx of African American professionals into the state in the 1800s.

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