May 6, 1921
On Saturday, May 14, the east and west railroad line through Southeastern Oklahoma and Southwestern Arkansas will be opened for traffic. For all purposes of commerce the De Queen & Eastern and the Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern railroads will become one. The rich territory east of De Queen and the productive lands west of De Queen will find a common outlet for fruits of farm and field. And all of the towns along both roads will gather at De Queen on traffic opening day, Saturday, May 14, to fittingly celebrate the important event. Â
Miss Rose Phillips has been employed as one of the teachers of Central school in Frog Level.Â
A Minneapolis policeman looks down Plymouth Ave in Minneapolis on July 21, 1967, hours before hundreds of National Guard troops arrive to patrol Black communities as part of a larger movement against Black rebellions in the 60s [Robert Walsh/AP Photo]
Minnesota, like every other US state, begins with a lie. Explore Minnesota tourism ads present the state as a natural paradise, as if the US military-occupied land of Mni Sota Makoce is God-country, some blessing bestowed upon God’s own settler-colony.
Popular culture presents a narrative about the state as pure and as white as the opening scene of Fargo. The upper Midwest is full of hearty, plaid and parka-wearers and white homemaking mom’s you betcha and don’tcha know-ing over a stack of unfinished pancakes as the ruddy-cheeked children grab their hockey sticks and run out to the frozen-over pond.