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- African Americans have lived in Hastings since the 1860s.
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Mar 8, 2023 · The first Black families who settled, worked and started businesses in Hastings, Minn., are an example of the city’s rich Black history. Many were barbers, farmers and mill workers.
- Sarah Thamer
In 2000, there were 200 African Americans living in Adams County, with almost all living in Hastings. According to the U.S. Census, in 2022 African Americans comprise .6% of the city's population. [ 21 ] On June 24, 2007, Hastings won Yahoo's Greenest City in America competition.
By 1943, over 1,500 African American enlisted men, many with families, were assigned to the depot. Approximately 100 Lakota and Chippewa families worked on the depot's construction crew. German POWs were brought in to help with non-military jobs.
African Americans in Nebraska History. African Americans in Brownville, 1864. Slavery was legal in Nebraska for several years, but the 1860 census recorded only fifteen slaves out of eighty-one black residents in the Territory.
The earliest Black settlements in Nebraska were neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska City, Brownville, and Auburn. Later, the cities of Valentine, Grand Island, North Platte, Beatrice, and Alliance all had numbers of Black people living there.
Although they resided in different cities, a new community formed between Blacks in both Hastings and North Omaha. While nearly 2,000 Blacks would live and work at Hastings during wartime, many had moved to Hastings only to work in the plant during the war.
When hundreds of diverse people arrived to help out, they were not always treated with respect. Willie Tripp wasn’t born in Nebraska, but moved to Hastings to work at the Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot. The Powder Keg, 1944 issue of the Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot newsletter
