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El Paso's Project XV Museum shares voting rights stories, including their own—but it's not open yet northernpublicradio.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from northernpublicradio.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Project XV Museum had hoped to be open by now. Saturday's gala is aimed at raising funds to continue making progress on 4,000 square feet of exhibit space, including David Strother's historic barber shop. ....
El Paso's Project XV Museum shares voting rights stories, including their own—but it's not open yet wglt.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wglt.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Tory Dahlhoff / WCBU In the basement of the Legacy Building in El Paso, Illinois is a small corner room with a wall of cinderblocks filling a doorway that once led to the street above. Around 125 years ago locals entered here for a shave and a chat with their barber, David Strother. Now just a dim light from a single bulb reveals the remaining frame and narrow countertop of Strother’s barber station, just enough to imagine how it once looked. When it comes to Central Illinois historical figures, El Paso, a small city just off Interstate 39 in Woodford County, is most often celebrated as the birthplace of Fulton Sheen, the Catholic archbishop on a contentious road toward sainthood. But more than 20 years before Sheen’s birth, Strother, the town’s humble and beloved barber and a veteran of the Civil War, had already made history here as the first Black American in Illinois, and one of the first in the nation, to exercise his right to vote. ....
Woodford County Man Was 1st In Illinois To Fulfill Promise Of 15th Amendment peoriapublicradio.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from peoriapublicradio.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.