African American Resources for Minnesota

Online Resources

 * Minnesota African American Records
 * Civil War Research Database -- Bibliography $
 * Minnesota Cemeteries (Find A Grave)
 * Minnesota Digital Archives
 * Minnesota African American (Rootsweb)
 * Minnesota State Archives and Libraries
 * The Duluth Lynchings Online Resource

Research Strategy

 * Taylor, David Vassar Blacks in Minnesota: a preliminary guide to historical sourcesCall Number 977.6 A1 includes index.

History

 * Taylor, David Vassar African Americans in Minnesota Call Number 977.6 F2td includes index.

Uncertain lives : African Americans and their first 150 years in the Red Wing, Minnesota area by Frederick L. Johnson Call number 977.614/R1F2 Includes bibliographical references and index.

Oral Histories
The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

Newspapers
Minnesota Obituaries!

Archives and Libraries

 * Minnesota State Archives
 * Minnesota State Archives and Libraries
 * MNSU Collections Minnesota State University

Societies
Minnesota African American Museum and Cultural Center Descendants of history-makers meet at Historic Fort Snelling: A solemn sense of history and perhaps even some ghosts were in the air Thursday at Historic Fort Snelling, when the descendants of 19th-century figures central to events involving white settlers, black slaves and American Indians came together.