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Minnesota Experience

Season 1 · Episode 17

North Star: Making Home

0.0February 4, 2019

The "hidden history" of African Americans who helped shape the North Star state of Minnesota. From fur trader George Bonga to the state's first black woman lawyer, Lena Smith.

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Episode 1Flour Power
Episode 2Lost Twin Cities III
Episode 3Cornerstones: A History of North Minneapolis
Episode 4Fires of 1918
Episode 5Lost Twin Cities 4
Episode 6Glensheen and the Congdon Legacy
Episode 7Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian
Episode 8The People's Protectors
Episode 9MN in the 70's
Episode 10The Fabulous Ice Age
Episode 11Hmong Pioneers: Honoring the First Wave
Episode 12Restoring The People's House
Episode 13Tales of the Road
Episode 14Made in St. Paul
Episode 15Martin Luther King in Minnesota
Episode 16The Legendary Saint Paul Winter Carnival
Episode 17North Star: Making Home
Episode 18North Star: Making Change
Episode 19Cass Gilbert: Standing the Test of Time
Episode 20Jim Crow of the North
Episode 21Gracious Spaces: Clarence H. Johnston
Episode 22Women Outward Bound
Episode 23The Minneapolis Sound
Episode 24Minnesota's Deadliest Tornadoes & Fiercest Floods
Episode 25A History of the Land
Episode 26Great American Railroad Journeys: Minneapolis to St. Paul
Episode 27Great American Railroad Journeys: Red Wing to Portage, WI
Episode 28Minnesota Remembers Vietnam: America's Secret War
Episode 29Out North - Part 1
Episode 30Out North - Part 2
Episode 31Iron Range: Minnesota Building America