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clockwise from lower left
Nelson Peery, veteran, political activist, author
Syl Jones, playwright, commentator
Congressman Kieth Ellison
W. Harry Davis, Minneapolis Civil Rights Leader
August Wilson, playwright
Walt Bellamy, Penumbra Theater
Gordon Parks, photographer, director, renaissance man
Alan Page, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice, MN Viking
Dr. Jean L. Harris, Eden Prairie Mayor, clean-air advocate, executive
Roy Wilkins, NAACP,Presidential Medal of Freedom
Tiger Jack Rosenbloom, shopkeeper, Rondo lamplighter
Jim Hightower, Mpls Urban League, author
A dream deeply rooted in the American Dream comes true
On the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States
The February 2008 Black History Month display at the Eden Prairie Library was sponsored by the City's Human Rights & Diversity
Commission and assembled by Jeff Strate.
Included with the notable Minnesotans are Shirley Chisholm, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, Charlayne
Hunter-Galt, An unknown, WWII soldier, Thurgood Marshall, James Meredith, The Poor Peoples March on Washington,
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(photo courtesy of Eden Prairie News)
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