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