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<br />NEWS RELEASE <br />April 5, 2017 <br />FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br />Contact: Judy Woodward 651-724-6022 <br />Administrative Offices 4570 North Victoria Street Shoreview, Minnesota 55126 (651) 486-2200 FAX <br />(651) 486-2220 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Promises Betrayed: African-American History from the Emancipation <br />Proclamation to The Birth of a Nation. <br />Wednesday, April 26 at 12:30 pm <br />Roseville Library <br />2180 Hamline Ave. N. <br /> <br />The Emancipation Proclamation and the Constitutional Amendments of the immediate post- <br />Civil War Era promised the newly freed slaves the full rights of American citizenship. Yet within a <br />few years, those promises had been betrayed by a combination of northern political corruption and <br />white southern resurgent terrorism in the form of the Klan and Jim Crow. Join well-known local <br />historian J.B. Andersen for an illuminating look at a tragic era. <br />Presented with the financial support of Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. <br />This program is free and open to the community without pre-registration. <br />### <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />