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MINNEAPOLIS IS...

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[[caption]] Walter R. Scott, Sr. Publisher [[/caption]]

Dear Fellow Citizens:

In the spring of 1945 the Governor's Interracial Commission submitted to Governor Edward Thye a report on the condition of Black people in Minnesota. It was later published as a booklet under the title, The Negro Worker in Minnesota. The supply of copies has long since been exhausted, and many requests have been made for a new edition.

Yet, during the past thirty years there have been considerable changes in the condition of the status of the Black population and in the attitudes of the majority population. It seemed to us, then, that current data should be collected and presented.

For that task my son and I secured the following information to be put into this pictorial resume. With the limited resources at our disposal, we collected the data and prepared the material for this book. The changes during the past thirty years have been so significant that the two of us  judged that this book should carry a new title for this Bicentennial celebration, "Minnesota's Black Community."

We now submit our effort to you. In it an earnest attempt has been made to present pictorially, not merely facts, but facts in their proper proportion and perspective.

Respectfully yours,

Walter R. Scott Sr.
Walter R. Scott, Sr.
Publisher

LeClair G. Lambert
LeClair G. Lambert 
Executive Editor

Courtesy of the "MINNESOTA'S Black Community"
-published by Scott Publishing Co.

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[[caption]] LeClair G. Lambert, information and research; assistant to executive director, St. Paul Urban League. Writer, editor, graphics. B.A., Hampton (Va.); other studies Boston and Munich, Germany. A Time/Life Books researcher, left NY to live, write in Europe. Taught biol. and Eng. Lit., Tripoli, Libya. Came to St. Paul in '73. An incorporator, S-U Free Press; convener, Twin Cities Theatre Guild; choreographer and prog. writer/designer, '75 Miss Black Minn. Pageant; a '74 "Black History Focus" writer; consultant, HELP Dev. Corp. and Intercul. Progs., U. of Minn. A KEEY radio host. He is a member of the National Public Relations Council and St. Paul Urban Leaguers. Lambert is the executive editor, researcher and writer for Minnesota's Black Community. [[/caption]]

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[[caption]] Nettie Hayes Sherman, long-time singer and dancer from St. Paul. She has performed with some of the world's top artists, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Fats Waller, and Nat King Cole—at clubs like the Cotton Club in Harlem, Colony Club in Chicago, and did Connie's Hot Chocolate Revue on Broadway. Still today at 75, Ms. Sherman performs for benefit concerts in the Upper Midwest. [[/caption]] 

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