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The Black community in Yankton was supported by Tom Douglas or Christopher Columbus Yancey, who opened a saloon there and encouraged Black families from other states to move to South Dakota. At its peak, the Black population in Yankton reached about 350 to 400 people. [ 15 ]
Free blacks as a percentage of the total black (African-American) population by U.S. region and U.S. state between 1790 and 1860 [14] ... South Dakota: N/A
This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in South Dakota.It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are those who achieved other distinctions, such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
She decided to travel South. The experience, Johnson said, was significant not only on a personal level but on a broader one as well. “It confirmed that Black history is American history,” she ...
In 2012, the Census Bureau estimated that 86.2% of South Dakotans were White, 8.9% were American Indian or Alaskan Native, 3.1% were Hispanic or Latino, 1.7% were Black or African American, 1.1% were Asian, and 0.1% were Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian. 2.1% of South Dakotans belonged to more than one race.
He was the first black person recorded in what would become South Dakota. In 1820, the United States Congress passed the Missouri Compromise. It prohibited slavery in the unorganized lands that would become the Nebraska Territory. The topic of slavery in Nebraska Territory would not be revisited by Congress until 1854.
A Native American-led nonprofit has announced that it purchased nearly 40 acres (16.2 hectares) of land in the Black Hills of South Dakota amid a growing movement that seeks to return land to ...
NORA, S.D. – On a nearly invisible corner of 307th Street and 475th Avenue in the middle of Union County, South Dakota, where farmland hugs you from everywhere and the topography begins to roll ...