Central Police Station, St. Paul

Central Police Station, St. Paul

St. Paul’s Central Police Station, 1900. Harris Martin died there in 1903 after having a heart attack on St. Peter Street.

Sixth Street, St. Paul

Sixth Street, St. Paul

Sixth Street in St. Paul, 1900. Boxing champion Harris Martin bested opponents in the back room of a saloon on this street in the late 1880s.

Drawing of Harris Martin

Drawing of Harris Martin

Drawing of Harris Martin that appeared on page five of the St. Paul Daily Globe on May 24, 1890.

Harris Martin

Harris Martin

Print based on a photograph of Harris Martin, 1887. Original caption: “Harris Martin, the Black Pearl, a Famous Boxer of St. Paul, Minnesota.” Police Gazette (New York), June 4, 1887, page 13.

Harris Martin

Harris Martin

Harris Martin in Minneapolis, 1887. The photograph appeared on page two of the St. Paul Globe on April 27, 1903.

Martin, Harris (1865–1903)

Harris Martin, also known as George Harris, was a middleweight boxer who went by the moniker “the Black Pearl.” In 1887 he became the first Colored Middleweight Champion of the World in a fight staged on the banks of the Mississippi, making him one of the most famous boxers of the period.

Casiville Bullard and family

Casiville Bullard and family

Casiville Bullard, Addison Bullard, and their children, ca. 1908. Pictured are (clockwise, left to right) Casiville, Lilly, Addison, Howard, Janet, and Casiville Jr. Public domain.

St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church

St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church

St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church (3600 Snelling Avenue, Minneapolis), 1975.

Irene Paull, Joe Paszak, and unidentified person

Irene Paull, Joe Paszak, and unidentified person

Irene Paull, Joe Paszak, and an unidentified person, 1937.

a photograph: lovers in motion

Promotional artwork created by Daniel Alexander Jones for Ntozake Shange's play a photograph: lovers in motion, ca. 1994. From folder 7 of box 5 of Penumbra Theatre Company records (GV002), Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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