On a train to Mississippi in 1922, Anna Arnold Hedgeman first faced overt racism as jarring as the rumbling of the rails. From St. Paul to Chicago, she rode in the dining car open to both Black and white passengers. But when the train reached Cairo, Ill., the conductor moved her to the colored car behind the locomotive. I was shocked by all the ugliness that is the South the Jim Crowism and segregation, she told Twin Cities audiences in 1950. And after working as executive director of a YWCA in Springfield, Ohio, she found the Midwest was not much better.
Born in Iowa in 1899, Anna Arnold moved to Anoka as a child, the oldest of six in the city s lone Black family. In 1922, after becoming Hamline University s first African American graduate, she launched a career as a civil rights and women s rights crusader working in the Truman administration, busting racial barriers in the New York mayor s Cabinet, playing a key role in the 1963 March on Washington and helping to found
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NEW BEDFORD The New Bedford Police Department started publishing its daily incident and arrest logs online on Monday, March 15. Previously, the logs were available in person in the department lobby.
Police Chief Joseph Cordeiro announced the news and discussed other police matters in a Facebook video posted late Saturday morning to set the record straight.
During a recent City Council meeting on Feb. 25, city councilors criticized the police department for a lack of transparency and requested it start providing the council with weekly crime reports.
In the 7-minute video, Cordeiro said the department releases a police log every day that references all incidents in the previous 24 hours. He mentioned former Standard-Times reporter Curt Brown as an example of accessibility, stating Brown would come in on a regular basis and inquire about incidents of interest to him.
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From different backgrounds, pair launched first skyways As the pandemic casts doubt about workaday downtowns, it s fitting to flash back to this pair of downtown boosters.
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They were born nearly 25 years and 400 miles apart in different pockets of the Midwest. But when Leslie Park and Edward Baker came together in Minneapolis more than 60 years ago, they changed the face of downtown creating the city s first skyways.
The son of a general store merchant, Park was born in 1901 in Balsam Lake, a northwestern Wisconsin town of a few hundred. Baker was born in 1926 in bustling Chicago, the son of a Russian-born Jewish traveling salesman.