Some people like baseball. Some people love baseball. Toni Stone loved baseball with a deep and abiding passion that lasted all her life, and she overcame massive obstacles for many years to play the game she loved. Marcenia Lyle Stone moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota, from West Virginia at age 10. Her parents Boykin and … Continue reading Toni Stone: Rondo-raised woman was first to play professional baseball in Negro League
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Gordon Parks: His Years in Saint Paul
When he died in 2006 at age 93, Gordon Parks was a famous man. He was known mostly as a photographer, but also as a filmmaker, writer and composer. His achievements were even more amazing because he was a black man who had grown up in poverty during the Great Depression. And much of what … Continue reading Gordon Parks: His Years in Saint Paul
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