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…in a searchable database online for a subscription fee. The Minneapolis Spokesman has been the primary newspaper for the black community since it was started in 1934 by editor Cecil…
Continue reading →…in a searchable database online for a subscription fee. The Minneapolis Spokesman has been the primary newspaper for the black community since it was started in 1934 by editor Cecil…
Continue reading →…1964 U of M graduate student Robert A. Stebbins completed his Ph.D. thesis, The Jazz Community: The Sociology of a Musical Sub-Culture. This was a huge find! Chapter 4 is a…
Continue reading →…Read more about Danceland and Colihan This from www.minniepaulmusic.com : “In 2011 Larry Wiegand reported that the Rave-Ons were playing at Marion Hall in Bloomington on the night The Rolling…
Continue reading →…the 1920s. In 1937 it played a role in Kid Cann’s alibi during his trial for the murder of Walter Liggett. Stay tuned for that story! http://www.mnbs.org/Union_Bar_History.pdf …
Continue reading →…sale in the windows of Samuelsons’ store, a smorgasbord at a Japanese restaurant, and a comic storytelling contest at Dudley Riggs. “They came in big busloads from Northern Minnesota,…
Continue reading →The Mayor of Bronzeville contest was a nationwide phenomenon that was started in Chicago by James “Jimmy” Gentry. After an unsuccessful attempt to initiate the contest in 1930 while at…
Continue reading →…the $3 entrance fee, “but so many fine women come here I’ve just got to come. They like to get ripped off, so I do too. And anyway that $3…
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