Football team

ID: 940

This file appears in: Education and Athletic Achievement

Saint Paul Mechanic Arts High School. Pictured: Joseph Douglas Crane, Thomas Farr Ellerbe, and Steven Hopkins.

Photographer: Kenneth Melvin Wright

Date: 1912

Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

This file appears in: Education and Athletic Achievement

Education and Athletic Achievement

By CultureBrokers Foundation, Inc. 2008. "Points of Entry: The African American Heritage Guide to Saint Paul."

The intersection of Lexington and Marshall represents two points of entry by African Americans: education and athletic achievement. In Saint Paul, access to educational institutions was generally available to African Americans, resulting in one of…