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February is Black History Month

Part three: Legacies and remembrance

by Mike Jones

Posted 2/20/24

The greatest legacies of Black life, enslaved and free, were and are people themselves. Galena historically had a robust population of Black inhabitants. Jo Daviess County had the all-Black community …

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