Amanda Lyles
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Wife of successful Saint Paul undertaker and civic leader who co-founded the Western Appeal newspaper in 1885 with Robert James Hilyard. Amanda continued to operate the mortuary after the death of her husband in 1920.
Date: Approximately 1913
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
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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…