AFRICAN AMERICAN REGISTRY (MINNEAPOLIS,
MINN):
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
Part or all of this collection is restricted.
For
details, please see restrictions.
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | African American Registry (Minneapolis, Minn), creator. | |
| Title: | African American Registry records. | |
| Dates: | 1988-2023. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Records of the African American Registry and its founder Benjamin Mchie. Includes Board and governance records; historical research materials; Registry calendars; print marketing and brochures; programmatic records; letters sent to the Registry; information on awards, appointments, and conferences; and audio and video recordings of interviews, promotional advertisements, and presentations produced for the Registry or other work by Mchie. | |
| Quantity: | 3 cubic feet (3 boxes and 4 oversize folders, unboxed), 13 user video files: MP4 (20.13 GB), 30 master audio files: WAV (1.8 GB), 30 user audio files: MP3 (289.5 MB), and 5 compressed zip file directories containing 254 digital files. | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
HISTORICAL NOTE
The African American Registry was founded by Benjamin Mchie in 1999. In its initial years, the Registry included a printed and online calendar with daily entries of accomplishments and short historical biographies of African Americans. The Registry expanded to serve as an on-line research database focused on African American heritage. In addition to the database, the Registry focuses on: classroom curriculum and workshops through its Teacher's Forum services; documenting personal narratives of African American elders, professionals, and youth through its Voices That Guide Us media services; and various youth programs, such as the Street Team, which promotes cross-cultural and cross-generational recorded and public dialogue between youth and elders.
The founder Benjamin Mchie was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to parents Beneta Edwards Mchie and John Mchie, Sr. on September 5, 1948. Mchie attended Minneapolis Central High School and later received a bachelor's degree in speech communication from California State University. Prior to creating the African American Registry, Mchie pursued a career in media, first working as a radio announcer for various stations, including hosting the weekly program RAP (Radio and People) on KQRS, and working as an independent camera operator for local television stations, ESPN, and other clients.
ARRANGEMENT
These documents are organized into the following sections:
| Board and governance records, programming, and related materials | ||
| Promotional materials | ||
| Interviews | ||
| Events and presentations | ||
| Ephemera, memorabilia, posters, and presentation boards | ||
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Access Restrictions:
Select video recordings and zip file directories in copyright in this collection are not available online, but can be accessed upon request for use in the Gale Family Library reading room. Please consult reference staff for more information.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. African American Registry Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Location of Master Files:
Digital masters of the microcassettes are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
The original microcassettes were disposed after the material was digitally reformatted into wav files.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 17,835; 17,853; 17,872; 17,901; 17,946
Processing Information:
Processed by: Leif Kopietz, January 2024.
Digitization and encoding by April Rodriguez, July 2025.
Digital audio transferred from the master microcassettes by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes, (July 2025).
Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
Catalog ID number: 9989848640204294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
BOARD AND GOVERNANCE RECORDS, PROGRAMMING, AND RELATED
MATERIALS
Includes Board of Directors and governance records for the African American Registry; records for the Teacher's Forum, Street Team, and Voices That Guides Us programs; calendars, brochures, and other printed materials produced by the Registry; letters of support and letters sent to the Registry; historical research materials; press clippings; and grant and proposal information (2000s-2023).
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 154.I.17.1B | 1 | African American Registry Teacher's Forum Program information, June 5, 2010. | |||||||||||
| African Burial Ground National Monument, August 3, 2010. | |||||||||||||
| Thank you cards, 2000s-2020s. | |||||||||||||
| Street Team, 2020. | |||||||||||||
| Journal of the Registry, 2020-2023. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Letters and historical information, 2000s. | |||||||||||||
| Minnesota State Board of Education: report of the Curriculum Task Force on Educating the Black Learner, June 1988. | |||||||||||||
| African American Registry donation direct-mail envelopes, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Letters to Ben Mchie, 2003, 2008, 2020. | |||||||||||||
| City of Saint Paul grant agreement, March 26, 2019. | |||||||||||||
| Selma Burke biographical card, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Photographs: classroom and exhibit booth, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Breck School, 6th Annual Martin Luther King Day Symposium invitation, January 2007. | |||||||||||||
| Black History/365 calendars, 2002-2012. | |||||||||||||
| Board and governance files, 2000s-2020. | |||||||||||||
| Teacher's Forum, 2018-2019. 3 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Minnesota Historical Society correspondence and materials, 1993, 1998. | |||||||||||||
| University of Minnesota correspondence and materials, 2019. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 154.I.17.2F | 2 | Youth Program composition books, undated, 2013. | |||||||||||
| Thank you notes from Breck School students and parents, 2006. | |||||||||||||
| Awards and appointments, 2010, 2013, 2017. | |||||||||||||
| Fifth Annual World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Equality, 2018. | |||||||||||||
| Press clippings, 2000s. | |||||||||||||
| Printed brochures, business cards, and marketing materials, 2000s. | |||||||||||||
| Fishing the Registry card game, 2006. | |||||||||||||
| Educational card game developed for elementary age students. Includes short biographies of influential African Americans. | |||||||||||||
| Historical research materials. | |||||||||||||
| Letters sent to the African American Registry, 2000s-2020s. 3 folders. | |||||||||||||
| School of Nursing, University of Minnesota: Frances Mchie Nursing Scholarship, 2021. | |||||||||||||
| RLS software questions from teachers, legislators, and the Minnesota Board of Education (MDE), undated. | |||||||||||||
| Letter of support for the African American Registry, University of St. Thomas, February 26, 2023. | |||||||||||||
| Project proposal: the African American Registry website, December 11, 2019. | |||||||||||||
| Letter of support for and partnership with the African American Registry - Concordia St. Paul, January 5, 2023. | |||||||||||||
| African American Registry brochures, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Strategic plan, The African American Registry, draft 2, October 22, 2008. | |||||||||||||
| African American Registry, 2003-2004. | |||||||||||||
| Includes compiled clippings and historical research materials. | |||||||||||||
| Minneapolis Public Schools, 2002-2005. | |||||||||||||
| [0.20 cubic feet empty, legal-sized] | |||||||||||||
| Internet | African American Registry Board and administrative records, 2010-2021. 1 ZIP file (216 MB): | ||||||||||||
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| AAREG: | |||||||||||||
| blog: | |||||||||||||
| blog copy 2016.pdf | |||||||||||||
| blog copy 2017.pdf | |||||||||||||
| blog copy 2018.pdf | |||||||||||||
| blog copy 2019.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Jelani blog copy.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Julia blog copy.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Board of Directors: | |||||||||||||
| 09 Board meeeting agenda Aug.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR annual report 2016-2017.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR annual report 2017-2018A.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR annual report 2018-2019.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR annual report 2019-2020.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR_Board_Skillset2.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAREG 2020 chart.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAREG Board of Directors 2019.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAREG Logic Model,2021.pdf | |||||||||||||
| aarIRSCertificate.pdf | |||||||||||||
| April 2017 Bd meeting minutes.pdf | |||||||||||||
| articles of incorporation.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Aug. 2014 Bd meeeting RETREAT agenda.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Aug. 2016 Bd meeeting RETREAT agenda.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Aug2010 Board meeeting agenda.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Aug2011 Bd meeeting agenda.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Aug2012 Bd meeeting agenda.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Board of Directors 2015.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Board of Directors list 07.pdf | |||||||||||||
| BoardMeetingPresentation1-25-2018.pdf | |||||||||||||
| By-Laws AAR.pdf | |||||||||||||
| May2015 Bd meeeting agenda.doc.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Registry Strategic Plan 2012 donor.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Brochures: | |||||||||||||
| 2010: | |||||||||||||
| BrochureLibrary2010.pdf | |||||||||||||
| 2011: | |||||||||||||
| Generic2011.pdf | |||||||||||||
| 2012: | |||||||||||||
| Advertisers 2012.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Donors 2012.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Teachers 2012.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Youth 2012.pdf | |||||||||||||
| 2013: | |||||||||||||
| Advertisers 2013.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Fundraiser 2013.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Teachers 2013.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Youth 2013.pdf | |||||||||||||
| 2015: | |||||||||||||
| BBonesheet.pdf | |||||||||||||
| calendar sale from webite.pdf | |||||||||||||
| hdinhd.pdf | |||||||||||||
| innw1.pdf | |||||||||||||
| marketing.pdf | |||||||||||||
| teachersforum.pdf | |||||||||||||
| 2017: | |||||||||||||
| AAR HE Teacher's Forum Brochure1.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR ST HD & HD Brochure.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR ST INNW Brochure.pdf | |||||||||||||
| 2018: | |||||||||||||
| AAR 2018b Teacher's Forum Brochure.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR digital article project volunteer 2018.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR video_podcast project intern_volunteer 2018.pdf | |||||||||||||
| 2019: | |||||||||||||
| AAR 2019 Teacher's Forum Brochure (electronic).pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR ST INNW Brochure, 2019.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAREG Curriculum intern 2019.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Target ST HD & HD Brochure 2019.pdf | |||||||||||||
| 2020: | |||||||||||||
| AAR 2019 TF Brochure, Portugese.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR 2020 Teacher's Forum Brochure.pdf | |||||||||||||
| ALL FACULTY 2020 TF Brochure.pdf | |||||||||||||
| 2021: | |||||||||||||
| AAR 2021 Teacher's Forum Brochure.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Fellowship, Reparations LAC, 2022: | |||||||||||||
| fellowships: | |||||||||||||
| AAREG_ACHS 2022 chart.pdf | |||||||||||||
| McWatt Fellowship Programme letter.pdf | |||||||||||||
| ST ACHS Flyer 2022_June.pdf | |||||||||||||
| LAC Reparations 2022: | |||||||||||||
| Convener Ltr to Mayor Carter 11-5-21.doc | |||||||||||||
| Saint Paul Recovery ACT STEERING Committee.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Frances Mchie Scholarship: | |||||||||||||
| Frances McHie Flyer.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Frances Mchie Rain Scholarship.pdf | |||||||||||||
| House Party Flyer.pdf | |||||||||||||
| mchie, delaney 2019.jpg | |||||||||||||
| sinkfield, mchie, UMN, 2019 copy.jpg | |||||||||||||
| The Frances McHie Nursing Scholarship.pdf | |||||||||||||
| UofM_Salutes_FRaines.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Journal of the Registry: | |||||||||||||
| Journal of Registry - Spring 2021 edition, border.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Journal of the Registry January 2022 Edition.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Journal of the Registry, 2020.pdf | |||||||||||||
| podcast: | |||||||||||||
| Arts of Africa (images): | |||||||||||||
| Arts Of Africa (Intro).jpg | |||||||||||||
| Banda Mask.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Beaded Crown (Adenla).jpg | |||||||||||||
| Chief's Chair.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Dance Headdress (Chi Wara Story).jpg | |||||||||||||
| Dance Headdress (Chi Wara).jpg | |||||||||||||
| Door.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Emblem of the Leopard Spirit Society (Nkpa).jpg | |||||||||||||
| Ethiopian Crosses.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Feast Ladle (Wunkirmian).jpg | |||||||||||||
| Gold Weights.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Kanga Mask in three pieces.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Likishi Dance Costume (Mwana Pwo).jpg | |||||||||||||
| Linguist Staff with Cat and Mouse.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Ndoli Jowei Helmet Mask for Sande Society.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Ndop Portrait.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Plaque.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Power Figure (Nkishi).jpg | |||||||||||||
| Power Figure (Nkisi Nkondi).jpg | |||||||||||||
| Staff with Female Figure.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Vessel.jpg | |||||||||||||
| naacp 100th (images): | |||||||||||||
| A Corporal's Guard for Negro Workers_ Black Social Scientists and the NAACP's Policies during the Depression.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Benjamin Todd Jealous Speaks on The NAACP_ The National Stage.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Beyond Eyes on the prize.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Beyond Eyes on the Prize_The NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Brown v. Board of Education from the Ground Up_ Glimmers of Light, Opportunities Lost and Grievous Costs.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Close the Dump_ The Roanoke Virginia NAACP and the Struggle against Environmental Racism.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Deborah McDowell's Opening Remarks_ NAACP 100th Anniversary.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Groundwork for a Southern Movement_ The NAACP in Virginia.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Into the Lion_s Den_ The Role of Local NAACP Attorneys in the Campaign Against School Segregation and the Fight for Racial Justice.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Julian Bond Interviews Benjamin Todd Jealous, NAACP president and CEO.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Labor and NAACP Q and A.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Lift Every Voice_ The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement_ A Roundtable 2.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Lift Every Voice_ The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement_ A Roundtable 3.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Lift Every Voice_ The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement_ A Roundtable.jpg | |||||||||||||
| M. Rick Turner_ NAACP 100th Anniversary Symposium.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Other Side of the 'Free' Way_ College Campuses and Racialized Territories in the Wake of Massive Resistance.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Recasting the Legacy of the NAACP_ Fighting 20th Century Slavery.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Recasting the Legacy of the NAACP_ Q and A.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Say it Plain.jpg | |||||||||||||
| The Hour Has Come_ The NAACP and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the New South.jpg | |||||||||||||
| The Legal Campaign Against Segregated Schools_ Q and A.jpg | |||||||||||||
| The Legal Campaign Against Segregated Schools_ Q and A1.jpg | |||||||||||||
| The NAACP_ One Hundred Years and Beyond 1.jpg | |||||||||||||
| The NAACP_ One Hundred Years and Beyond.jpg | |||||||||||||
| The NAACP's Second Century_ Organizational, Economic, Demographic and the Philosophical Challenges.jpg | |||||||||||||
| The Thorny Stem of Time__ One Hundred Years of Crisis.jpg | |||||||||||||
| To Go Boldly'_ Alice Jackson, African-American Women, and the Desegregation of the University of Virginia.jpg | |||||||||||||
| say it plain (images): | |||||||||||||
| Transcript_ Barack Obama Inaugural Address 2009.pdf | |||||||||||||
| BJordan.jpg | |||||||||||||
| BT Washington.jpg | |||||||||||||
| CThomas.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DGregory.jpg | |||||||||||||
| FLHamer.jpg | |||||||||||||
| JJackson.jpg | |||||||||||||
| MGarvey.jpg | |||||||||||||
| MLK Mt. Top.jpg | |||||||||||||
| MMBethune.jpg | |||||||||||||
| MNorris.jpg | |||||||||||||
| PresObama.jpg | |||||||||||||
| SCarmichael.jpg | |||||||||||||
| SChisholm.jpg | |||||||||||||
| SenObama.jpg | |||||||||||||
| Public Policy legislation: | |||||||||||||
| CP005.pdf | |||||||||||||
| CP008.pdf | |||||||||||||
| CP137.pdf | |||||||||||||
| LL109-2_1.pdf | |||||||||||||
| MM024.pdf | |||||||||||||
| SF1407-0.pdf | |||||||||||||
| SW009.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Street Team Youth Programs: | |||||||||||||
| Spring and Summer 2022: | |||||||||||||
| McWatt 2022: | |||||||||||||
| AAREG_ACHS 2022 chart.pdf | |||||||||||||
| ACHS Media disclaimer, Children.pdf | |||||||||||||
| ACHS Street Team syllabus Draft 2022.pdf | |||||||||||||
| ancestral acknowledgement.docx | |||||||||||||
| INNW, ACHS Overview, 2022, AAREG.pdf | |||||||||||||
| McWatt Fellowship, ACHS_Meeting Notes.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Mindful-Reflection-Mindful-Schools-1024x791.png | |||||||||||||
| ST ACHS Flyer 2022_June.pdf | |||||||||||||
| IMG_3453.jpg | |||||||||||||
| IMG_3454.jpg | |||||||||||||
| LB Street Team SICXAAREG 22' copy.jpg | |||||||||||||
| LB_ST_Syllabus.docx | |||||||||||||
| AAR ST HD & HD Brochure.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR ST INNW Brochure, 2019.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR ST Legacy Brochure.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AARegistry Street Team INNW 2019.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Editable Flyer-Elder Women STINNW Spring 2020.pdf | |||||||||||||
| innw1.pdf | |||||||||||||
| LB Street Team Flyer 1.pdf | |||||||||||||
| LB Street Team SICXAAREG 22' (1).pdf | |||||||||||||
| ST flyer, INNW St. Paul, 2020.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Target ST HD & HD Brochure 2019.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Youth 2012.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Youth 2013.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Teacher's Forum classroom service: | |||||||||||||
| E-12: | |||||||||||||
| aar 2014 teachersforum.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Teachers 2012.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Teachers 2013.pdf | |||||||||||||
| evaluations: | |||||||||||||
| Legislative Report 1.12.18 final-Ben 2.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Legislative Report Jan 19 Final.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Higher Edu: | |||||||||||||
| AAR support letter Minnesota State Mankato 2018.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AARP.pdf | |||||||||||||
| African American Registry partnership letter 12.11.18.pdf | |||||||||||||
| CUS Letter African American Registry 2019.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Teacher's Forum, 2018: | |||||||||||||
| AAR 2018 Teacher's Forum Brochure.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Teacher's Forum, 2019 - 2021: | |||||||||||||
| AAR 2019 Teacher's Forum Brochure (electronic).pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR 2020 Teacher's Forum Brochure.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR 2021 Teacher's Forum Brochure.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Teacher'sForum, 2016 - 2017: | |||||||||||||
| AAR Teacher's Forum Brochure, 2017.pdf | |||||||||||||
| TF 4 Fold PS 2016.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR 2020 Teacher's Forum Brochure.pdf | |||||||||||||
| AAR 2022 Teacher's Forum Brochure (1).pdf | |||||||||||||
| Transcripts: | |||||||||||||
| Archie Givens Jr. Transcript.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Black Classical Music History, A Perspective, Stephen Newby, 2005.pdf | |||||||||||||
| My Desire For More Black Women And Girls, Dr. Reatha Clark King.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Voice That Guides Us video narratives: | |||||||||||||
| Claire O'Connor transcript.pdf | |||||||||||||
| Native Americans.pdf | |||||||||||||
| ParentsGrandparents2010.pdf | |||||||||||||
PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS
| Inhouse | African American Registry Poetry Lab, 2001. 1 ZIP file (224 KB): | ||||||||||||
| IN COPYRIGHT. | |||||||||||||
| AAR poetry: | |||||||||||||
| aar poetry text one.doc | |||||||||||||
| aar poetry text two.doc | |||||||||||||
| Internet | Contents of Disc 1. African American Registry radio promotional demos, copyright 1999-2000: | ||||||||||||
| 1. Billboard, undated. 1 master audio file (31 seconds): WAV (5.29 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (4.93 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| 2. Liberator/Emancipation (3x Krazy), January 3, 2000. 1 master audio file (59 seconds): WAV (9.92 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (922 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| 3. Susan M. Stewart (Kenny Garrett), March 7, 2000. 1 master audio file (58 seconds): WAV (9.79 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (910 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| 4. Thurgood Marshall (Duke Ellington), April 3, 2000. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 1 second): WAV (10.3 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (965 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| 5. Joe Louis (The Artist f.k.a. Prince), May 12, 2000. 1 master audio file (58 seconds): WAV (9.83 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (914 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| 6. Lorraine Hansberry (Brian McKnight), May 19, 2000. 1 master audio file (54 seconds): WAV (9.24 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (859 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| 7. Nobel Prize (Marcus Roberts), August 3, 2000. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 2 seconds): WAV (10.4 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (9.71 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| 8. Ethel Waters (Schon & Scott), October 31, 2000. 1 master audio file (54 seconds): WAV (9.22 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (857 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| 9. College Football (Quincy Jones), December 27, 2000. 1 master audio file (55 seconds): WAV (9.26 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (861 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| Internet | Contents of Disc 2. African American Registry radio promotional demos, copyright 2001-2002: | ||||||||||||
| 1. Angela W. Grimke, February 27, 2001. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 6 seconds): WAV (11.2 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1.02 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| 2. Ron Brown, August 1, 2001. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 6 seconds): WAV (11.2 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1.02 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| 3. Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, June 3, 2001. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 8 seconds): WAV (11.5 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1.04 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| 4. Million Man March, October 16, 2001. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 8 seconds): WAV (11.5 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1.04 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| 5. Georgia D. Johnson, September 10, 2001. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 3 seconds): WAV (10.6 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (989 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| Internet | Contents of Disc 3. African American Registry radio promotional demos, copyright 2001-2002: | ||||||||||||
| 1. Niagara Movement, July 12, 2001. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 9 seconds): WAV (11.6 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1.05 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| 2. John Thomas, January 24, 2001. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 6 seconds): WAV (11.1 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1.01 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| 3. Ella Fitzgerald, April 25, 2001. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 7 seconds): WAV (11.3 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1.02 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| 4. William Councill, March 22, 2001. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 4 seconds): WAV (11 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (1 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| 5. Roy Campanella, November 19, 2001. 1 master audio file (1 minute, 3 seconds): WAV (10.6 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (991 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| Internet | Mchie Archives, media clips, undated: | ||||||||||||
| 1. Tone... 1 master audio file (1 minute, 3 seconds): WAV (10.6 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (992 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| 2. Teens preparing... 1 master audio file (1 minute, 3 seconds): WAV (10.6 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (986 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| 3. Adaptive... 1 master audio file (1 minute, 1 second): WAV (10.3 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (964 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| 4. Mark Twain... 1 master audio file (59 seconds): WAV (9.92 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (923 KB). | |||||||||||||
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| Internet | Power point products and services demos, African American Registry, August 8-9, 2000. 1 ZIP file (13 MB): | ||||||||||||
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| Internet | "Living legacy" promo video - rough cut, 2006. 1 video file: MP4, color, sound; 1.47 GB. | ||||||||||||
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| Internet | "Living legacy" (sample) # 1, Benjamin Mchie, 2006. 1 video file: MP4, color, sound; 1.66 GB. | ||||||||||||
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| Internet | "Living legacy" promo video, August 2006. 1 video file: MP4, color, sound; 423 MB. | ||||||||||||
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INTERVIEWS
Includes oral history interviews conducted and produced by Benjamin Mchie for the African American Registry, freelance work, and co-productions.
| Inhouse | Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint Paul's Historic Black Community, September 2005. 1 video file: MP4, color, sound; 1.10 GB. | ||||||||||||
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| Produced by Kateleen Jill Hope Caveet, Oral Historian of Hand in Hand Productions, and Benjamin Mchie, Executive Director of the African American Registry. The film accompanies a book of the same title, and includes interviews with the following Rondo neighborhood residents: Yusef Mgeni, Mary Kallenn Murray Boyd, Kathryn Coram Gagnon, William "Billy" L. Collins, Jr., Bill "Corky" Finney, Deborah Gilbreath Montgomery, and Don G. Wilson. | |||||||||||||
| Internet | W.A. Harry Davis, Sr. interview, approximately 2006. 2 video files: MP4, color, sound; 528 MB: | ||||||||||||
| Two short interview clips with civil rights activist, longtime Minneapolis School Board member, and civic leader W.A. Harry Davis, Sr. | |||||||||||||
| Clip 1. Civil Rights. | |||||||||||||
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| Inhouse | African American Leadership Forum VI: Ovation: Karen Kelley-Ariwoola, June 9, 2012. 1 video file: MP4, color, sound; 333 MB. | ||||||||||||
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| Produced by the African American Leadership Forum and interviews are conducted by Benjamin Mchie. Includes interview of Karen Kelley-Ariwoola and other interviews of colleagues and friends discussing her career and legacy in philanthropic and community leadership. | |||||||||||||
| Internet | Professors Michaele Pride and Frank Walker, undated. 1 video file: MP4, color, sound; 274 MB. | ||||||||||||
| Includes interviews with urban design and architectural professor Michaele Pride of the University of Cincinnati and poet and professor Frank X Walker from the University of Kentucky. | |||||||||||||
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| Internet | Dr. Joseph White, undated. 1 video file: MP4, color, sound; 766 MB. | ||||||||||||
| Interview with Joseph White, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine. | |||||||||||||
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| Internet | Interview with former major league baseball player Dave Winfield, undated. 1 video file: MP4, color, sound; 116 MB. | ||||||||||||
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| Internet | Interview tapes: | ||||||||||||
| Benjie, undated, 1989-1990. | |||||||||||||
| Tape 1. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 5 minutes): WAV (328 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (60.4 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| Tape 2. 1 master audio file (20 minutes, 26 seconds): WAV (103 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (18.5 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| Frances Rains (Mchie), 1991. | |||||||||||||
| Aunt of Bejamin Mchie and first African American woman to graduate from the University of Minnesota Nursing School. | |||||||||||||
| Tape 1. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 3 minutes): WAV (320 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (44.6 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| Tape 2. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 3 minutes): WAV (320 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (46.8 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| Tape 3. 1 master audio file (46 minutes, 54 seconds): WAV (236 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (38.9 MB). | |||||||||||||
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| Horace Rains, 1991. 1 master audio file (51 minutes, 30 seconds): WAV (259 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (37.1 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Husband of Francis Rains and physician. | |||||||||||||
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| Registry interview with Ritha Dixon, wife of conductor Dean Dixon, undated. 1 master audio file (23 minutes, 30 seconds): WAV (119 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (21.4 MB). | |||||||||||||
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EVENTS AND PRESENTATIONS
| Internet | "African American history in black & white; an American history presentation," Hennepin County Government, February 22, 2006. 2 video files: MP4, color, sound; 15.1 GB: | ||||||||||||
| Benjamin Mchie was one of many presenters at this annual Black History Month event. His presentation can be found between the minutes of 3:30 to 11:00. | |||||||||||||
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| Internet | Minnesota Timberwolves honor Benjamin Mchie and the African American Registry for Black History Month, February 1, 2013. 1 ZIP file (204 MB): | ||||||||||||
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| Internet | African American History Month, Ramsey County and St. Paul, "St. Paul Stories," Ben Mchie, February 15, 2013. 1 ZIP file (9.44 MB): | ||||||||||||
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| AAHM 2-15-2013: 43 digital images: JPEG: | |||||||||||||
| AAHM - Photos for Ben Mchie - City & County AAHM - 2-15-13 ((1): | |||||||||||||
| DSC_1111 RC AAHM - Welcome and introductions from Deputy May.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9129 RC AAHM Deputy Mayor Paul Williams, program MC, wel.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9133 RC AAHM Mayor Chris Coleman welcomed by planning co.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9134 RC AAHM Mayor Chris Coleman and Deputy Mayor Paul W.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9137 RC AAHM Joyce Darby (RC CHS) welcomes County & City.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9141 RC AAHM Joyce Darby (RC CHS) welcomes County and Ci.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9143 RC AAHM Deputy Mayor Paul Williams serves as MC for.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9144 RC AAHM Deputy Mayor Paul Williams, MC at 2-15-13 p.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9145 RC AAHM Deputy Mayor Paul Williams, MC for 2-15-13 .jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9147 RC AAHM Deputy Mayor Paul Williams, 2-15-13 program.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9149 RC AAHM Deputy Mayor Paul Williams introducing Mayo.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9150 RC AAHM Mayor Chris Coleman & Deputy Mayor Paul Wil.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9152 RC AAHM Mayor Chris Coleman - important to tell our.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9153 RC AAHM Mayor Chris Coleman - important to know and.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9156 RC AAHM Mayor Chris Coleman - commonality, stories .jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9158 RC AAHM Mayor Coleman - History, why it matters - 2.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9159 RC AAHM Mayor Chris Coleman - understand, move forw.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9160 RC AAHM Mayor Chris Coleman - create unity - 2-15-1.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9161 RC AAHM Mayor Chris Coleman - It's all our story, t.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9162 RC AAHM Mayor Chris Coleman - importance of knowing.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9165 RC AAHM Mayor Chris Coleman 2-15-13.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9166 RC AAHM programs are on City of Saint Paul YouTube .jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9175 RC AAHM Deputy Mayor Paul Williams introducing spea.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9176 RC AAHM Deputy Mayor Paul Williams welcomes speaker.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9178 RC AAHM Ben Mchie, African American Registry - St..jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9181RC AAHM Ben Mchie, African American Registry - St. P.jpg | |||||||||||||
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| DSC_9183 RC AAHM Ben Mchie, African American Registry - St. .jpg | |||||||||||||
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| DSC_9190 RC AAHM Rick Cunningham (RC Community Human Service.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9195 RC AAHM Siobhan Tolar (CI-StPaul) Q. How can a pers.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9196 RC AAHM Siobhan Tolar (CI-StPaul) - St. Paul Storie.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9198 RC AAHM Ben Mchie, African American Registry, Q & A.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9200 RC AAHM Sam Powers, Deputy Director HREEAO, CI-St. .jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9202 RC AAHM Billy Peterson, former St. Paul municipal a.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9204 RC AAHM Billy Peterson, former St. Paul municipal a.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9205 RC AAHM Billy Peterson, former St. Paul municipal a.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9207 RC AAHM Ben Mchie, African American Registry, and .jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9208 RC AAHM Billy Peterson, former St. Paul municipal a.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9210 RC AAHM Billy Peterson, former St. Paul municipal a.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9213 RC AAHM 2-15-13.jpg | |||||||||||||
| DSC_9216 RC AAHM Ben Mchie, African American Registry, credi.jpg | |||||||||||||
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EPHEMERA, MEMORABILIA, POSTERS, AND PRESENTATIONS BOARDS
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| A2/ov8 Drawer 8 | 1 | Flip chart notes: teaching and presentations, undated. | |||||||||||
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| A2/ov8 Drawer 8 | 2 | Martin Luther King, Jr. portrait photograph, undated. | |||||||||||
| "Fishing the Registry" presentation board, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Photograph: "African woman," by B. Clifton, undated. | |||||||||||||
| The Frances Mchie Nursing Scholarship poster board, undated. | |||||||||||||
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| 153.A.15.4F-2 | 4 | African American Registry coffee mug, undated. | |||||||||||
| African American Registry water bottle, undated. | |||||||||||||
| African American Registry face mask, undated. | |||||||||||||
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| A2/ov8 Drawer 8 | 2 | Poster: African American Registry, Street Team INNW (If not now, when?), undated. | |||||||||||
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| A2/ov8 Drawer 8 | 3 | Display poster board: www.aaaregistry.com, 2000s. | |||||||||||
| Display poster board: Selma Burke, 2000s. | |||||||||||||
| Mounted article: "Black history 365 days a year," by Kimberly Hayes Taylor, Star Tribune, February 1, 2001. | |||||||||||||
| Black History/365, appointment wall calendar, 2003. | |||||||||||||
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| 153.A.15.4F-2 | 4 | Display props, undated, 2003-2004. | |||||||||||
| Plaque: NIA Purpose, Benjamin Mchie, 2003. | |||||||||||||
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| A2/ov8 Drawer 8 | 4 | African American Registry, Black History/365, companion appointment and school year wall calendars, 2004-2007. 4 items. | |||||||||||
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| 153.A.15.4F-2 | 4 | Mounted article: "Site updates black history, day to day," by Terry Collins, Star Tribune, February 19, 2005. | |||||||||||
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| A2/ov8 Drawer 8 | 4 | Hero in the making: the Minnesota Timberwolves FastBreak Foundation is please to honor Benjamin Mchie, February 10, 2010. | |||||||||||
| Poster: "Man on a mission," by Bill Ward, Star Tribune, February 16, 2012. | |||||||||||||
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| 153.A.15.4F-2 | 4 | African American Registry, Black Heritage/365, internet companion calendars, 2013-2015. | |||||||||||
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| A2/ov8 Drawer 8 | 4 | African American Registry, Autumn Evening Fundraiser posters, 2015. 2 items. | |||||||||||
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| 153.A.15.4F-2 | 4 | Presenter's pass, Benjamin Mchie, Voices Heard: Transforming Education Equity, August 2017. | |||||||||||
| State of Minnesota Governor's Council Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017. | |||||||||||||
RELATED MATERIALS
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- African Americans -- Interviews.
- African Americans -- History.
- African Americans -- Study and teaching.
- African Americans -- Minnesota.
- African Americans and mass media.
- History -- Research -- Data processing.
- Persons:
- Mchie, Benjamin, 1948-, author.
- Davis, W. Harry, 1923-, interviewee.
- White, Joseph L., 1932-2017, interviewee.
- Winfield, Dave, 1951-, interviewee.
- Pride, Michaele, interviewee.
- Walker, Frank X., 1961-, interviewee.
- Rains, Horace, interviewee.
- Dixon, Ritha, interviewee.
- Kelley-Ariwoola, Karen, interviewee.
- Mgeni, Yusef, interviewee.
- Boyd, Mary Kalleen Murray, 1942-, interviewee.
- Gagnon, Kathryn Coram, 1943-2004, interviewee.
- Collins, William L., 1948-, interviewee.
- Finney, William Kelso, interviewee.
- Montgomery, Debbie Gilbreath, 1946-, interviewee.
- Wilson, Don Gaugh, 1929-, interviewee.
- Document Types:
- Audio recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Files (digital files).
- Photographs.
- Interviews.
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