Degrees of freedom : the origins of civil rights in Minnesota, 1865-1912 / William D. Green.
He had just given a rousing speech to a crammed assembly in St. Paul, but Frederick Douglass, confidant to the Great Emancipator himself and conscience of the Republican Party, was denied a hotel room because he was black. This was Minnesota in 1873, four years after the state had approved black suf...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Part I. The barbers -- When America came to St. Paul -- Maurice Jernigan takes a stand -- On becoming a good Republican -- The sons of freedom -- Part II. The entrepreneurs -- Mr. Douglass and the civilizable characteristics of the colored race -- Senate Bill No. 181 -- A certain class of citizens -- Professor Washington, leader of the race -- The renaissance of the cakewalk -- Part III. The radicals -- Wheaton and McGhee: a tale of two leaders -- The election of J. Frank Wheaton -- A call to action -- A defining moment for McGhee -- After St. Paul, Niagara -- The legacy -- Epilogue: time for a different tone of advocacy. | |
| 520 | |a He had just given a rousing speech to a crammed assembly in St. Paul, but Frederick Douglass, confidant to the Great Emancipator himself and conscience of the Republican Party, was denied a hotel room because he was black. This was Minnesota in 1873, four years after the state had approved black suffrage--a state where "freedom" meant being unshackled from chains but not social restrictions, where "equality" meant access to the ballot but not to a hotel or restaurant downtown. Spanning the half century after the Civil War, Degrees of Freedom draws a rare picture of black experience in a northern state of this period and of the nature of black discontent and action within a predominantly white, ostensibly progressive society. William D. Green brings to light a full cast of little-known historical characters among the black men and women who moved to Minnesota following the Fifteenth Amendment; worked as farmhands and laborers; built communities (such as Pig's Eye Landing, later renamed St. Paul), businesses, and a newspaper (the Western Appeal); and embodied the slow but inexorable advancement of race relations in the state over time. Within this absorbing, often surprising, narrative we meet "ordinary" citizens, like former slave and early settler Jim Thompson and black barbers catering to a white clientele, but also outsize figures of national stature, such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois, all of whom championed civil rights in Minnesota. And we see how, in a state where racial prejudice and oppression wore a liberal mask, black settlers and entrepreneurs, politicians, and activists maneuvered within a restricted political arena to bring about real and lasting change. | ||
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