Events
Global Hotdish Variety Show: A Tribute to Black History Month 
Saturday, Feb. 26, 2 p.m.
$12 Adults, $10 MHS members, $5 Children. Museum admission included.
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Hosted by Thomasina Petrus
House band: Mick Labriola and Congo Lion
Featuring: African American step dancing (DeLaSouljah Steppers); Hip hop and spoken word (Sha’Cage and Youth Amplified); Hambone body percussion (Daryl Boudreaux); Jazz and blues. More information on the program.
Tuskegee Airmen
Saturdays & Sundays: 2/12–13, 2/19–20 & 2/26–27
12 to 4 p.m.
Included with museum admission.
Explore the Minnesota’s Greatest Generation exhibit and learn about the Tuskegee airmen. Try on a parachute pack, listen to a story and make your own model aircraft (model aircraft activity will not be available on Feb. 27 but kits will be available to take home).
Featured History Player: Frederick McKinley Jones
Sundays: 2/13 & 2/20
1, 2, 3 & 4 p.m.
Included with museum admission.
Meet Frederick McKinley Jones, an African American race-car driver and inventor whose refrigeration system for trucks changed the way we eat.
Minnesota’s Greatest Generation - African American Storytelling
Saturday, 2/26
1:30, 2:30, & 3:30 p.m.
Included with museum admission.
Tales from African American members of Minnesota’s Greatest Generation come to life in this performance by storyteller Jerry Blue.
History Resources
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History Topics: African American Civil Rights Movement
African Americans in Minnesota by David Vassar Taylor
Black History Makers in Minnesota (PDF Document)
A Peculiar Imbalance: The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota by William D. Green
Labor, Politics, and African American Identity in Minneapolis, 1930–50
History Topics: Rondo Neighborhood & the Building of I-94
