African American businesses were gathering places within the community, and served as a network for assisting newcomers. When Matthew Little first arrived in Minneapolis from North Carolina and was looking for a place to live, he was directed to a barbershop for help.
This photograph, dating to the late 1940s, shows barber Sylvester Young cutting a customer's hair at Battle's Barber Shop at Sixth and Lyndale in Minneapolis.
Creator: Robert Patterson
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Dates: 1945–1950
Identifer: location HF5.1 p27
