Our newest book is all about African Americans in South Dakota. Forgotten Lives by Betti VanEpps-Taylor looks at the vital minority of African Americans in this state over the least two hundred years.
Oscar Micheaux, the acclaimed filmmaker, lived here, and York, who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their Expedition, also spent time in what would become South Dakota, but most of the people in the book are not well-known outside of their own communities. Their stories offer much to twenty-first century Americans still struggling to come to grips with their racial history.
