With the recent toppling of the Christopher Columbus monument in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Jasa and Sarah wondered - what if we created more monuments for the historically (and currently) significant BIPOC of Minnesota? In this episode of SOTA, w eexplore Minnesota Monuments, and the BIPOC people who should be memorialized in the form of a public likeness. Architecture, Law, and Hair Gel are only a few of the notable developments for which people like Carl Fraction, Reatha Clark King, and Clarence “Cap” Wigington should be recognized.
Minnesota protesters pull down Columbus statue at Capitol
16 trailblazing black Minnesotans you should know more about
How the US Got So Many Confederate Monuments
A Confederate Monuments Expert Explains How We Memorialized White Supremacy
Those Mass-Produced Civil War Statues Were Meant to Stand Forever
The Truth behind Confederate Monuments
Frederick McKinley Jones, innovator of many devices
Equality through education and giving, Reatha Clark King
Carl Fraction, a Minnesota chemist
