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Harvey Bentley and the African American “Get-To-Gether” Picnics

By Erica Carmody

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Jack and Emma Armstrong and the Black USO Center During World War II

By Jack Johnson

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United Soul and the Black Campus Movement at Augustana College and Sioux Falls College

By Emma Ostwinkle

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Booker T. Washington Service Center

By Isabel Van Veldhuizen

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Father Stan and the American Indian Culture Research Center

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South Dakota Urban Indian Health

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Wilbert B. Wright

Barbers, Porters, and the Cataract Hotel

By Ellen Gandrud

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African American Heritage Sites in Sioux Falls

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Histories of the African American experience in South Dakota are often underdeveloped, limited to the stories of enslaved man York accompanying the Lewis and Clark Expedition or of the Buffalo…

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