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Harris Martin

Print based on a photograph of Harris Martin, 1887. Original caption: “Harris Martin, the Black Pearl, a Famous Boxer of St. Paul, Minnesota.” Police Gazette (New York), June 4, 1887, page 13.

Harris Martin

Harris Martin in Minneapolis, 1887. The photograph appeared on page two of the St. Paul Globe on April 27, 1903.

Harris Martin, also known as George Harris, was a middleweight boxer who went by the moniker “the Black Pearl.” In 1887 he became the first Colored Middleweight Champion of the World in a fight staged on the banks of the Mississippi, making him one of the most famous boxers of the period.

Gunflint Trail Scenic Byway

Cross-country skiers on the Gunflint Trail Scenic Byway, 1995–2013. Public domain.

Jun Fujita boating on Rainy Lake

Jun Fujita boating on Rainy Lake. Photograph by Wayne Carr, ca. 1931. Collection of Graham and Pamela Lee. Used with permission.

Jun Fujita camping

Jun Fujita seated with a typewriter at a camp site, ca. 1920s. Collection of Graham and Pamela Lee. Used with permission.

Jun Fujita and friends at Rainy Lake

Jun Fujita (second from right) and friends at Rainy Lake, ca. 1920. Collection of Graham and Pamela Lee. Used with permission.

Honeycutt, Prince Albert (1852–1924)

Born into slavery in 1852, Prince Honeycutt set a course for himself that led from Civil War battlefields in Tennessee to freedom in the North. He settled in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, in 1872, and his accomplishments there were milestones in the state’s history: the first Black professional baseball player, the first Black firefighter, and the first Black person to run for mayor. In addition, he used his business and leadership skills to assist other Black people moving from the Jim Crow South to rural Minnesota.