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Andrea Jenkins in Storied: Queer Voices

The Storied: Queer Voices series interviews Andrea Jenkins, a poet, writer, transgender activist, and educator. Jenkins, a Ward 8 council member and vice president of the Minneapolis City Council, holds an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and teaches poetry at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is a co-editor of Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride. Her book of poetry is titled The T is Not Silent: new and selected poems. Her writing is also featured in the MNHS Press books Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota and A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota.

Lynne Jackson on Dred and Harriet Scott, her ancestors

Lynne Jackson talks about her great, great-grandparents, Dred and Harriet Scott, who lived at Fort Snelling before taking their fight for freedom to the US Supreme Court.

Grey family tree

The family of Emily O. Goodridge Grey. From Patricia C. Harpole, ed., “The Black Community in Territorial St. Anthony: A Memoir,” Minnesota History 49, no. 2 (Summer 1984), 45.

Grey, Emily O. Goodridge (1834–1916)

Emily Grey was one of the first African Americans to settle in Old St. Anthony, where she owned and successfully operated her own business as a seamstress. She was active in religious and civic affairs and popular among Black and white residents alike. Best known for initiating the effort to free an enslaved woman named Eliza Winston in 1860, she weathered mob violence for her efforts. She rebuilt her home and business after the incident and lived in Minneapolis for the remainder of her life.

Congregation of Brown’s Chapel, Hastings

The congregation of Brown’s Chapel, Hastings, gathered in front of their church. Photograph by Howard Crosby ca. 1900. The photo was originally published in the Hastings Gazette on September 2, 1949. Pictured are the congregation's minister (in the top hat), brass band musician John Goodman (front row, right), Mrs. Weldon, Mrs. Curry, and Mr. Wallace (at left in the second row). Bill Douglas stands on the platform in the rear.

Burning of Brown’s Chapel AME, Hastings

Sometime past midnight on Friday, November 1, 1907, “the ringing of a fire bell rang out,” as reported in the Hastings Democrat. Brown’s Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) was engulfed in flames. The little white frame church that had stood on the corner of Fifth and Sibley Streets had been established by the Black residents of Hasting’s community. Two weeks prior, they had celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of “having a place of their own."

Nellie Stone Johnson with the Count Basie Orchestra

Nellie Stone Johnson speaking at a performance of the Count Basie Orchestra at the Riverview. Photograph by Charles Chambliss, December 16, 1980.

Nellie Stone Johnson at Nellie's Shirt and Zipper repair shop

Nellie Stone Johnson at work inside Nellie's Shirt and Zipper repair shop, Lumber Exchange Building 1035, Minneapolis, November 1980. Photograph by Elizabeth M. Hall.

Award presented to the designers of a Oromo cultural exhibit at the Festival of Nations

Award of excellence presented to the designers of a Oromo cultural exhibit at the Festival of Nations in St. Paul, 1994. Used with the permission of Teferi Fufa.

Performance by the Union of Oromo Students in North America (UOSNA)

Members of the Union of Oromo Students in North America (UOSNA) perform at a cultural event, 1983. Used with the permission of Teferi Fufa.

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