Hennepin History Museum’s new exhibit centers Eliza Winston, whose 1860 court victory made her the first person to legally secure freedom in Minnesota, while confronting the state’s quiet complicity in slavery.
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Eliza Winston Exhibit Honors Minnesota’s Hidden History of Courage and Resistance
The Hennepin History Museum’s new exhibit, “Winston: A Woman’s Fight for Freedom in Minnesota,” spotlights Eliza Winston—the enslaved woman who won her freedom in an 1860 Minneapolis courtroom. Rare documents, artifacts, and new art reveal Minnesota’s hidden history of courage and resistance.
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Hennepin Fest to spotlight women artists
Hennepin Fest on May 31 will showcase Minnesota women musicians and poets at Washburn Fair Oaks Park, promoting unity, creativity, and cultural resistance.
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Separate Not Equal: Minnesota’s Integration Story Still Unfolding
The Parkway Theater will be hosting a screening of Separate Not Equal – Minnesota’s Integration Story, a documentary revisiting the 1971 Hale-Field Pairing, followed by a community Q&A, to discuss the current state of racial disparities in education in Minnesota.
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State’s rich athletic legacy celebrated in new pop-up exhibit
The Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame has been revived and will be a pop-up exhibit on the lower level of the Dayton’s Project in downtown Minneapolis, featuring displays of “firsts,” Olympic success, the Metrodome, women’s sports, and more.
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MPS hosts the “Separate Not Equal” Hale-Field exhibit
‘It’s just so important to understand the past to really disrupt what is happening now and in the future.’
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Now open at Hennepin History Museum – ‘Human Toll: A Public History of 35W’
A new exhibit at Hennepin History Museum explores community resistance and resilience and illustrates how freeway construction destroyed and divided Black communities across the United States.