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The opportunities available to immigrants, including Minnesota’s Somali community, exist because generations of Black Americans — alongside white allies — fought, organized, and sacrificed to expand civil rights and dismantle discriminatory systems. When Somali families began arriving in larger numbers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, they entered a Minnesota already reshaped by the victories of the Civil Rights Movement. School desegregation, fair housing protections, voting rights, and workplace anti‑discrimination laws were secured through struggle, not granted freely. These protections made it possible for Somali Minnesotans to build businesses ...