Ramsey County History – Winter 1993: “Growing Up in St. Paul: Looking Back at the Black Community”

Growing Up in St. Paul: Looking Back at the Black Community

Author: Eula T. Murphy (with David V. Taylor)

The author, born in Alabama in 1919, moved with her family to St. Paul in 1920. She grew up mostly in Frogtown during the Depression. The family suffered unemployment, her mother’s early death, and the troubles of being black in a very white city. She and her sisters thrived just the same. This memoir takes her into the 1990s.

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