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Photo from 'First 85' Fergus Falls, MN

Fergus Falls, MN Exhibit, ‘First 85,’ Documents Black Pioneer Life in the West

Histories of the Civil War and the mid-19th century mineral rush abound. But what happened shortly thereafter, when newly freed African Americans sought better lives across the U.S., is a story largely resigned to family albums and local historical societies like the one in Fergus Falls, Minn. There, a collection of newspaper clippings and photographs, [...]