Robert James Hilyard
This file appears in: Early Entrepreneurs
Purchased The Appeal newspaper in 1886 with Thomas Lyles.
Date: Approximately 1886
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Early Entrepreneurs
Early Entrepreneurs
Even though pre-Civil War legislation attempted to restrict the movement of African Americans to Minnesota, free blacks and fugitive slaves continued to come. The highest concentration of blacks resided in the downtown commercial districts where…