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Dr. Charles Mayo compared the sterilization of the "unfit" to "foolish" chickens crossing the road and getting killed.
Born into slavery, John Cheatham became the first Black fire captain with the Minneapolis Fire Department in 1899.
A street once named after the founder of the Minnesota Eugenics Society now honors Minneapolis' first Black fire captain
John Cheatham was born to an enslaved family in Missouri in 1855. His parents came up the Mississippi and settled in Minneapolis shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation banned slavery during the Civil War in 1863. They were among the first Black families in the city.
John Cheatham was born to an enslaved family in Missouri in 1855. His parents came up the Mississippi and settled in Minneapolis shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation banned slavery during the Civil War in 1863. They were among the first Black families in the city.