St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-02-25
Progress Is More Than A Word

Is Progress coopera-
ton Of number OF Interested business firms try to tell the story
Minnesota NegroAmericans dur
preceding with reference also Negro history and
the made by this all Of the s. in the
February special edition
birthday great played
history o Americans African
We speak Of Frederick Douglass the escaped slave who lived to
strike blows against the institution OF human slavery and whose
facIe played tremendous in beang the
three million bondmen
Abraham Lincoln the of humble origin
presidency
United States Lincoln who said and believed nation conceived in
Union struck the shacles the
limbs Of the slaves and died martyr to American freedom and Jus
uce
picture
Negro progress
II they each alive neither had lived is possible would
progress report
Progress 1864 in began way back when those who
preceded here Eighteen Fics
the stakeholder refuge
found refuge here and sim others we're slipped up to free by
early Minnesotans who detested human bondage
After Emancipation Proclamation the OF the Civil
War number OF the more hardy freedmen and their families un-
afraid OF the d temperatures the Mississippi river ST.
Paul and what then known Anthony Falls
Minneapolis Many OF the descendants those early families
stn live in state
Those citizens thrifty
made places themselves st Paul especially
ton OF the tradition OF hberay the question of the Negro by
Minnesota be traced the good impression made by the early
settlers
Negroes progress integral part
Minnesota for The 10 the period
the change greatest advance this Min
well elsewhere.
In steady n
point up year provided
evidence OF the hardness Of traditional racial peuces which often
the full opportunity American minority
especially the on the whole
looking employment
getting equal employment
Negro cncians continued to rise number Minnesota and
parnty the time arrived when those who training
special ss win not find difficult sell those skls the Min
nesota employment market
Housing remained OF the toughest problems both st Paul
Minneapolis city
ed by the construction Of So homes the Minneapolis South
side available TO Negro families other which wanted TO
prospective Negro home half hundred families
opportunity buy home at prevailing market and
shortage OF homes for Negro families had caused inflated
charged
housing needed because Negro families
forced to buy old structures often 20 cent than their
value
practically every Negroes
along organized
Negro families Enrolment the
tonal institutions university college level
sofa Negro Carl of the counys Out
hnnsotan was named to the board OF trustees OF the National
Urban League, Lillian Baenger Paul elected
president the National Urban League Council Guilds Mime
apos had published Thousands
found the visiting professional basketball Churches the
two cities continue membership spiritual leadership
community usefulness An three branches the NAACP
the state conference showed continued vitality
maned Negroes entering
small but general businesses Negroes employed
move up TO higher grades Prospects for the Of state FEF
brighter when tine conference NAACP initiated
reorganization bright pros
poets passage city nnay early
1885, Minneapolis
social clubs Movement Minneapolis
Eastern stars Of Prince temple
widespread support
These and other indicate progress
Minnesota than keep
steady growth every population
must grow with it.