This was a change decreed by the State Agricultural Society during a meeting in February, 1968. At that meeting in January, Ada Pritchard, a fourteen-year member of the State Agricultural Society and great-great-granddaughter of the first pastor of Westminster Presbyterian (founded by political elites in 1860 in downtown Minneapolis), stated, “After all Hubert Humphrey ended Twin City banks from denying mortgages to Jews and n*****s in the fifties. It’s time the fair catches up to the progressive race ways of state and national politics, instituted by this state’s finest politician nearly two decades ago, by creating a location designated specifically for our darker skinned brethren to display their crafts.” All those in attendance looked away from Ada. Few agreed, but she carried clout. “
