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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Reviving An 1850s Saloon
DESCRIPTION:Reviving an 1850s Lager Beer Saloon–Do’s and Don’ts\nTom Schroeder\n\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 24\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nSome say business and historic preservation don’t mix. ‘Not so\,’ says Tom Schroeder\, developer and owner of Waldmann Brewery in St. Paul–‘You just have to give it a good shake.’ In this ‘kiss and tell’ description of his discovery\, restoration and ultimate reopening in 2017 of a Territorial Period lager beer saloon near downtown St. Paul–Tom provides a candid retelling of the story of Waldmann: what went well and what didn’t\, how politics and good intentions collide\, the surprising role of our preservation bureaucracy and ultimately how no good deed goes unpunished. \nTom Schroeder\, Waldmann’s owner\, will present numerous images\, historic context and notable vignettes from the story of Waldmann itself.\nFor more on Waldmann Brewery\, see https://waldmannbrewery.com/ \nPast History Revealed Programs\nVideos of some of our past History Revealed programs are available on the RCHS & Gibbs Farm Youtube channel.\nRamsey County Historical Society Youtube Channel \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-reviving-an-1850s-saloon/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event,Waldmann's Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210622T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Tulsa Race Massacre
DESCRIPTION:The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre\nKarlos K. Hill\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nTuesday\, June 22\, 2021\, 7:00 pm\nNew registration link: Rescheduled Registration Link\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \n\n\n\nJoin us for this very special History Revealed program with Karlos K. Hill\, author of the new book\, The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History\, on the centennial of the event in Tulsa\, OK.  \nOn the evening of May 31\, 1921\, and in the early morning hours of June 1\, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa\, Oklahoma. In the course of some twelve hours of mob violence\, white Tulsans reduced one of the nation’s most prosperous black communities to rubble and killed an estimated 300 people\, mostly African Americans. This richly illustrated volume\, featuring more than 175 photographs\, along with oral testimonies\, shines a new spotlight on the race massacre from the vantage point of its victims and survivors. \nHistorian and Black Studies professor Karlos K. Hill presents a range of photographs taken before\, during\, and after the massacre\, mostly by white photographers. Some of the images are published here for the first time. Comparing these photographs to those taken elsewhere in the United States of lynchings\, the author makes a powerful case for terming the 1921 outbreak not a riot but a massacre. White civilians\, in many cases assisted or condoned by local and state law enforcement\, perpetuated a systematic and coordinated attack on Black Tulsans and their property. \nDespite all the violence and devastation\, black Tulsans rebuilt the Greenwood District brick by brick. By the mid-twentieth century\, Greenwood had reached a new zenith\, with nearly 250 Black-owned and Black-operated businesses. Today the citizens of Greenwood\, with support from the broader community\, continue to work diligently to revive the neighborhood once known as “Black Wall Street.” As a result\, Hill asserts\, the most important legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the grit and resilience of the Black survivors of racist violence. \nThe 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History offers a perspective largely missing from other accounts. At once captivating and disturbing\, it will embolden readers to confront the uncomfortable legacy of racial violence in U.S. history. \n \nKarlos K. Hill is Associate Professor and Chair of the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory.\nImage of Professor Hill from https://www.ou.edu/cas/afam/faculty-staff\n \n \nAn additional book for families and children grades 3-6\, Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford\, illustrated by Floyd Cooper\, is available from Lerner Publications at https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/20776 \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-tulsa-race-massacre/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event,Presentation,Publishing,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210617T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210617T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Irvine Park
DESCRIPTION:Neighborhood Architecture: Irvine Park\nJeanne Kosfeld and Richard Kronick\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 17\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Zoom Registration Link \nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library\n \n\nTwin Cities-based illustrator Jeanne Kosfeld and author Richard Kronick have together transformed a simple sketchbook featuring pen and ink drawings into a brief storytelling of the Irvine Park neighborhood’s unique 172-year history. The author and illustrator will share the history and the architecture of Irvine Park’s fanciful Queen Anne-style homes\, simple clapboard houses\, and elaborate French Second Empire-style mansions\, and the story of the area and its inhabitants. \nWhat began as a casual sketch outing in Saint Paul’s charming Irvine Park neighborhood during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic became Neighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book. Twin Cities-based illustrator Jeanne Kosfeld and author Richard Kronick have together transformed a simple sketchbook featuring pen and ink drawings into a brief storytelling of the Irvine Park neighborhood’s unique 172-year history. Artists of all ages and abilities can colorize their own imagined versions of these historic edifices. \nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book will be available from RCHS in April.\nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book will be available in softcover with 18 house sketches\, brief histories of the homes’ owners and architecture; and an architectural style guide and glossary at the end of the 48-page book. $18.99 regular price\, $15.00 for RCHS members. Shipping will be additional. \nTo order books\, use the order form here. \nAbout the Illustrator: Artist Jeanne Kosfeld paints primarily with water-based media\, but her large body of work also includes print and board game design and public sculpture. She started her career as a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist. Along her creative path\, she led the design department at the University of Alaska\, where she was also an adjunct faculty member. In Minnesota\, she worked as the creative director at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts for eighteen years. \nKosfeld has won several awards\, and her work resides in many public and private collections. She has been honored with artist-in-residences around the globe. \nAbout the Author: Richard Kronick has been a full-time freelance writer since 1985\, specializing in architecture and engineering. He is the co-author with Rick Harrison and Greg Yoko of a 2010 book on suburban planning titled Prefurbia: Reinventing the Suburbs from Disdainable to Sustainable. Kronick has written over one hundred articles and reviews on the built environment and has planned and led more than sixty architecture tours in the Twin Cities\, the Midwest\, and Italy. He is a member of the board of directors of the nonprofit Preserve Minneapolis (PM) and is editor-in-chief of PM’s MinneapolisHistorical.org\, a guide to the city’s architecture. He often lectures and teaches continuing education courses on the history of architecture and is an expert on the Prairie School architects Purcell & Elmslie.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-irvine-park/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation,Publishing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210612T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210612T140000
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SUMMARY:June 12 Volunteer Day
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our June 12th volunteer Day from 10:00-2:00. Gibbs Farm staff will lead volunteers in active outdoor projects to prepare for our 2021 season. Projects will include: gardening\, light landscaping and site clean-up.\n\n\n\nProjects are great for individuals\, volunteers 12+ and family groups! Perfect for students needing to complete service hours.\nInstructions\, materials and snacks provided. Please wear close-toed shoes and clothes you can work in! Bring work gloves and a lunch if you wish!\nQuestions? Interested in volunteering but can’t make this event? Email Clare@rchs.com or call the Gibbs Farm Office 651-646-8629.\nThere is plenty of space to spread out\, masks and social distancing required\n\nLet us know you are coming by RSVPing using this link: https://signup.com/Group/37005712280864030/\nOR email Clare@RCHS.com.\n\n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/june-12-volunteer-day/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Gibbs Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210610T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210610T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association
DESCRIPTION:The Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association of Minnesota\nAnna Peterson\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 10\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\n \n\n\nDuring the fight for women’s suffrage\, Minnesota was home to one of the only ethnic suffrage organizations in the country. The Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association (SWSA) operated from 1907 to 1919 and used cultural connections to garner support for women’s suffrage at the state and national levels.  Its leaders played on ethnic afficilitation and identity to lobby Scandinavian-American legislators and members of the general public to vote for women’s enfranchisement.  The SWSA had members from all walks of life\, serving to counter anti-suffragist claims that suffragists were only elite\, society women who did not represent the typical American woman. This talk will detail the history of the SWSA and the ways in which its membership’s varied ethnic and class backgrounds “spiced up” the women’s suffrage movement.\n\nAnna M. Peterson is associate professor of history at Luther College in Decorah\, IA. She also serves as editor for the Norwegian-American Historical Association. Her many publications include two articles on the Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association published in Minnesota History and The Journal of American Ethnic History.\n\n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-scandinavian-woman-suffrage-association/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210608T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210608T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Research & Restoration
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nResearch + Restoration: Using History to Inspire Your Home’s Rehabilitation\nElyse Jensen\, Mollie Spillman and Rich Arpi\nHistory Revealed Series\nJune 8\, 2021\nTuesday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with Rethos: Places Reimagined\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nJoin Irvine Park homeowner and restorer Elyse Jensen\, RCHS Curator Mollie Spillman and RCHS Research Associate Rich Arpi in a panel discussion. They will share insights on how you can research the history of your home or property\, to help you make choices that are functional\, but also respect your home’s history. \nRestorer Elyse Jensenwill talk about the research they did on their home in Irvine Park to guide their rehab & design projects. Using archival data\, old newspapers\, stories from former owners\, etc.\, they were able to make choices that preserved and renovated their home and also kept the historic nature of the house and the neighborhood. Their experience can help inspire & teach other homeowners about using research to explore their homes’ histories & futures. \nRCHS Curator Mollie Spillman and Research Associate Rich Arpi will provide insights on what the RCHS Collection has to offer homeowners looking to research their property\, including building permits\, plat maps\, survey photos and more. They will share the process of how to go about researching your home\, and where to go for assistance. \nZoom registration is required:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdOGtqDMvHN0ixtsvyNy8CmQ4f7PUkMbU \nFor past History revealed programs\, see History Revealed Online. \nFeatured image: The Ohage House in the Irvine Park neighborhood of St. Paul\, undergoing restoration\, date unknown (built in 1889). From the RCHS Collection.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-research-restoration/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210520T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210520T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Historic Ballparks
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nHistoric Ballparks of the Twin Cities\nStew Thornley\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nMay 20\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library \nFrom the rickety to the palatial\, ballparks have grown up with and defined baseball in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Some old-timers have vivid memories of cheering for Willie Mays and Roy Campanella at Nicollet and Lexington. Others marveled at a majestic Killebrew home run at the Met. Many a lucky resident celebrated two world championships in the Metrodome and witnessed one of the greatest pitching performances in World Series history. More recently\, fans have enjoyed the return of sunshine and even raindrops at Target Field. Described by City Pages as “the most respected local baseball historian\,” Stew Thornley leads a tour of where we—as well as our grandparents and now our children—discovered baseball. \nStew Thornley has been researching Minnesota baseball history for more than forty years. He is an official scorer for Minnesota Twins home games and is a member of the Major League Baseball Official Scoring Advisory Committee.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-historic-ballparks/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210515T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210515T133000
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SUMMARY:Irvine Park Coloring Book Walking Tours
DESCRIPTION:Irvine Park Walking Tour and Book Release Event for\nNeighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book\nSaturday\, May 15\, 2021\nTwo sessions: 11:15 am and 12:30 \nJeanne Kosfeld and Richard Kronick have created a unique first book featuring the lovely Irvine Park neighborhood. Readers may color or paint eighteen sketches of old homes while learning about the area’s history and architecture. \nFor tour registrations\, see our secure form here. \nRCHS will host a COVID-safe kickoff event for the coloring book and short tour of the Irvine Park neighborhood on Saturday\, May 15\, 2021. \nTickets are $30 each or $27 for members and include a copy of the coloring book\, which will be distributed at the end of the tour. \n\nThe first tour begins at 11:15 am followed by a second tour at 12:30 pm.\nTours are limited to sixteen people\, two people per registration.\nMasks are required to be worn throughout the event.\nPlease meet ten minutes before the start of the tour at 223 Walnut Street.\nPark at the Alexander Ramsey House lot\, 265 Exchange Street South.\nRain date: June 5\, 2021.\n\nPlease contact RCHS at events@rchs.com if concerned about the weather or to cancel your registration.\nThere are no refunds\, but we will contact you to get a mailing address to ship your coloring book. \nExtra copies of Neighborhood Architecture – Irvine Park\, Saint Paul: a coloring book are available in softcover with eighteen house sketches\, brief histories of the homes’ owners and architecture; and an architectural style guide and glossary at the end of the forty-eight-page book. Cost is $20; $18 for RCHS members.\nOrder at https://rchs.com/publishing/books/. \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/irvine-park-coloring-book-walking-tours/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,Publishing,Special Events,Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210508T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210508T140000
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SUMMARY:Gibbs Farm May 8th Volunteer Day
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our May 8th volunteer Day from 10:00-2:00. Gibbs Farm staff will lead volunteers in active outdoor projects to prepare for our 2021 season. Projects will include: gardening\, light landscaping and site clean-up.\n\nLet us know you are coming by using our SignUp page or emailing Clare@RCHS.com.\nRegister by using Signup.com\n\nProjects are great for volunteers 12+ or family groups! Perfect for students needing to complete service hours. Instructions\, materials and snacks provided. Please wear close-toed shoes and clothes you can work in. Bring work gloves and a lunch if you wish!\n\nQuestions? Email Clare@rchs.com or call the Gibbs Farm Office 651-646-8629.\nThere is plenty of space to spread out\, masks and social distancing required
URL:https://rchs.com/event/gibbs-farm-may-8th-volunteer-day/
LOCATION:Gibbs Volunteer Interest Form
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Gibbs Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210506T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140717
CREATED:20210325T155235Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang
DESCRIPTION:Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang in Minnesota\nDeborah Frethem & Cynthia Schreiner Smith\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nMay 6\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nFrom their home base in Minnesota\, the Karpis-Barker Gang cut a swath of crime and terror across the Midwest in the early 1930s. They kidnapped two important businessmen and held them for exorbitant ransoms. They stole payrolls and robbed banks as the bullets flew. Corrupt police and wily crime bosses helped Alvin Karpis and the Barker brothers\, Freddie and Doc\, every step of the way. Who were these men and women? What made them into killers and kidnappers? How did their reckless lifestyles lead to their downfall? From Ma Barker to Volney Davis to Edna Murray the Kissing Bandit\, authors Deborah Frethem and Cynthia Schreiner Smith delve into the crimes\, personalities and motivations of one of the most successful and infamous gangs in American history.\nCynthia Schreiner Smith is an actor/writer/producer born and raised in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, where she still lives in a suburb outside the city. This is her first book\, but she he has published short pieces on St. Paul history in the St. Paul Almanac in 2012 and 2014. Since 1998\, she has worked as a tour guide for “Down in History Tours” in St. Paul\, researching and writing scripts for its historical tours. She is best known there for performing the St. Paul Gangster Tour as Barker-Karpis gang member Edna Murray\, the Kissing Bandit. Cynthia and her husband\, Bick Smith\, are co-owners of CyBick Productions\, producing corporate videos and short films. In 2011\, they produced Gangsterland\, a documentary-style movie about 1930s gangsters in St. Paul.\nDeborah Frethem previously published Ghost Stories of St. Petersburg\, Clearwater\, and Pinellas County with The History Press in 2007\, Haunted Tampa: Spirits of the Bay in 2013 and Haunted Ybor City in 2014. She has also written scripts for historical tours in Minnesota and Florida and conducted these tours for more than twenty years. She has a bachelor’s degree in history from Olaf College and has served as tour manager for “Down in History Tours” in St. Paul. She is currently a writer and storyteller\, living on a boat in the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-alvin-karpis-and-the-barker-gang/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210429T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: St. Paul Hiking Club
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nThe St. Paul Hiking Club\nRobert Tholkes\, with Janice Quick\, Donna Naumann Jensen and Pat Hustings\nHistory Revealed Series\nApril 29\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nJoin Bob Tholkes\, Janice Quick and Pat Hustings as they share the history and stories of the St. Paul Hiking Club from its beginnings one hundred years ago on January 15\, 1921. \nOn January 15\, 1921\, twenty-five hardy young people bundled up in their warmest boots\, knickers\, hiking skirts\, and woolen mittens and socks for a six-mile round-trip jaunt on the east side of St. Paul in 10°F weather. With that inaugural trek\, the St. Paul Municipal Hiking Club was formed. A century on and a few days past the anniversary of that first frigid excursion\, members of what is today simply called the St. Paul Hiking Club recreated the journey—in warmer weather—15°F!  When not walking\, Bob Tholkes\, president of the club since 2014\, spent the better part of two years researching the story of one of St. Paul’s early social clubs that formed to promote exercise and create opportunities to get to know one another and explore Minnesota’s great outdoors. Join Bob and historians/members Janice Quick and Pat Hustings for this anniversary event and get inspired to hike this spring! \nZoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlduGrqjkuGtOLt65-fg6PAtbsO6a0OEmN \nFeatured image: In 1940\, the City of Saint Paul honored the St. Paul Municipal Hiking Club (now the St. Paul Hiking Club) for their volunteer work at one of the local parks. From the RCHS Collection.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-st-paul-hiking-club/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210423T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210423T200000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: From Hurt to Healing
DESCRIPTION:The East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society Present\n\nFrom Hurt to Healing: An Intergenerational Activity Book\n\nJan Mandell and Mariana Morgan-Sawyer\nHistory Revealed Series\nApril 23\, 2021\nFriday\, 6:30 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nHow do we move from hurt to healing? The murder of George Floyd and the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic brought together young people and elders in a three-month Zoom conversation focused on healing from trauma. Elders shared stories of how they persevered in their racial justice struggles when they were young\, and young people asked questions\, listened\, and led mind-body medicine breathing tools they were practicing to heal from their stress and burn-out in the aftermath of intensive activism responding to the traumatic events of 2020. \nIn From Hurt to Healing: An Intergenerational Activity Book\, there are coloring pages of community elders including blocks of texts and inspirational quotations where they share their wisdom and experiences for moving from hurt to healing as well as beautifully hand drawn coloring pages of breathing tools with directions and other healing practices such as humming\, hair braiding\, and dancing. There are word searches and writing prompts to encourage intergenerational dialogue and includes the wisdom of the St. Paul Rondo community with coloring pages of the Selby Avenue Jazz Fest\, Rondo Days\, and other local festivals. \nJoin some of the creators of From Hurt to Healing and members of the ESFL community in an exploration of how this coloring activity book can promote cross-generational connection and healing from trauma. From Hurt to Healing: An Intergenerational Activity Book\, a collaboration between Every Body’s In and Irreducible Grace Foundation (IGF)\, two black-led non-profits in the Rondo Community of St. Paul\, MN\, is available now! Books can be ordered on the Irreducible Grace website.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-from-hurt-to-healing/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210422T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210422T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Charles Malchow
DESCRIPTION:Charles W. Malchow and the Story Behind “The Sexual Life”\nDr. Ryan Hurt with Paul Nelson\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nApril 22\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegistration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nAt the turn of the twentieth century\, a progressive doctor named Charles W. Malchow\, who worked at Hamline University’s short-lived Department of Medicine\, wrote a book—a book about sex. Trained at the Minneapolis College of Physicians and Surgeons and in Europe\, the young doctor believed it was important for readers\, particularly women\, to better understand sexual relationships as healthy and normal. He partnered with publisher Olly Burton. Together\, they ran their work by test audiences. They even contacted the postal authorities to make sure they could send promotional materials and the book itself through the mail. They were reminded by one postal official of the Comstock Law. Despite that\, they proceeded as planned. \nAuthors Ryan T. Hurt and Paul Nelson\, will share the story of Dr. Malchow\, Olly Burton and the aftermath of their publication. \nFor a PDF of their article in Ramsey County History magazine\, “A Doctor Ahead of His Time and the Trouble that Followed: The Sexual Life by Charles W. Malchow\,” see the link here. \nRyan T. Hurt is a physician and professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester\, MN. Born in Rochester\, he attended Hamline University as an undergraduate. He serves on the Mayo Clinic Historical Committee and has an interst in the history of medicine. \nPaul Nelson is an amateur historian living in St. Paul. Born and raised in Ohio’s Connecticut Western Reserve\, he is the author of many publications on Minnesota history\, including for Ramsey County History magazine\, and the RCHS podcast series\, and is a graduate of University of Minnesota’s Law School.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-charles-malchow/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event,Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210415T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Clara Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nClara Anderson: A Woman’s Fight to Save Her Job in the Face of Discrimination\nJohn Guthmann\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nApril 15\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library \n“Bartenders Wanted: Women Need Not Apply.” In the early 1940s\, Clara Anderson worked as a bartender at a local hotel until the St. Paul City Council enacted an ordinance barring women from working behind the bar once men returned from World War II. Rather than lose her job to a man\, Anderson went to court. Her battle lasted three years and involved one tenacious lawyer and nine judges along the way. Ramsey County Chief Judge John Guthmann accidentally discovered this long-forgotten case when conducting research for a judicial portrait dedication at the Ramsey County Law Library. Intrigued\, he wanted to learn more about this feisty woman. Using court records\, family stories and photographs\, and newspaper accounts\, Guthmann brings Anderson’s story and her fight against discrimination to life.\n \nJohn H. Guthmann is a former Chief Judge of Minnesota’s Second Judicial District and a member of the Ramsey County Board of Directors. He graduated from Cornell College in Mount Vernon\, Iowa\, with a double major in history and political science\, and received his JD from William Mitchell College of Law. After clerking for Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Robert Sheran\, he spent twenty-seven years in private practice until his appointment to the bench in 2008. \nImage: Clara Anderson\, sometime between 1941-1943\, when she was about 33-35 years old and working as a bartender at the Frederic Hotel during the war years. Photo courtesy of Monte Anderson.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-clara-anderson/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210408T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210408T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140717
CREATED:20210119T205922Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Booth Girls
DESCRIPTION:Booth Girls: Pregnancy\, Adoption\, and the Secrets We Kept\nKim Heikkila\, PhD\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nApril 8\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Registration Link\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nBooth Girls is a thoughtful\, multigenerational story of contested motherhood\, equal parts biography\, oral history\, history\, and memoir. \nKim Heikkila’s mother had a secret: in 1961\, two years before her marriage\, she became pregnant. After several months hidden in her parents’ attic bedroom\, she gave birth to a daughter at the Salvation Army’s Booth Memorial Hospital\, a home for unwed mothers in St. Paul\, and surrendered her for adoption. \nKim’s older sister reunited with her birth family in the 1990s. Kim’s mother wrote about these experiences\, but after she died\, Heikkila still had questions. Using careful research and sensitive interviews with other “Booth girls\,” she tells the stories of the Booth hospital and the women who passed through it—and she learned more about her own experience as an adoptive mother. \nKim Heikkila\, PhD\, is an independent scholar and president of Spotlight Oral History. She has also taught courses on US history\, US women’s history\, the Vietnam War\, and the 1960s at colleges and universities in the Twin Cities area. She is the author of Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-booth-girls/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210318T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210318T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Fight for the Right to Vote
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nRedefining Citizenship: The Fight for the Right to Vote in Minnesota and the Midwest\nSara Egge\nHistory Revealed Series\nMarch 18\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library \n\nExamining how women won the right to vote in Minnesota and the Midwest reveals how Midwesterners changed their conceptions of citizenship in the early twentieth century. Women earned the ballot during World War I\, when demonstrating patriotism became an expected part of the war effort. Mobilizing for the war\, which so many midwestern suffragists did quite willingly\, served as a testament to their loyalty to both community and country. They also leveraged that mobilization against the alleged disloyalty of immigrants in the region whom they attacked as slackers. Suffragists claimed that exercising the right to vote was an expression of duty\, rather than just a natural right.\n\n\n\nSara Egge is the Claude D. Pottinger Professor of History at Centre College in Kentucky. She received her PhD from Iowa State University. She is the author of the award-winning book Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest\, 1870-1920. She also serves as the President of the Midwestern History Association. Her research examines how the woman suffrage movement intersected with immigration and the nativist sentiments that accompanied its rise. She teaches courses on women’s and gender history as well as histories of citizenship\, food systems\, and environments in the US. She is originally from South Dakota.\nFor more about Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest\, 1870-1920\, see this link.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-the-fight-for-the-right-to-vote/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210304T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140717
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Grace Holmes Carlson
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson\nA Conversation with Author Donna Haverty-Stacke\nand Greg Poferl\, Linda Leighton\, and Mary Wingerd\nHistory Revealed Series\nMarch 4\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting: Register Here\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nOn December 8\, 1941\, Grace Holmes Carlson\, the only female defendant among eighteen Trotskyists convicted under the Smith Act\, was sentenced to sixteen months in federal prison for advocating the violent overthrow of the government. After serving a year in Alderson prison\, Carlson returned to her work as an organizer for the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and ran for vice president of the United States under its banner in 1948. Then\, in 1952\, she abruptly left the SWP and returned to the Catholic Church. With the support of the Sisters of St. Joseph\, who had educated her as a child\, Carlson began a new life as a professor of psychology at St. Mary’s Junior College in Minneapolis where she advocated for social justice\, now as a Catholic Marxist. \nThe Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic\, Socialist\, Feminist is a historical biography that examines the story of this complicated woman in the context of her times with a specific focus on her experiences as a member of the working class\, as a Catholic\, and as a woman. Her story illuminates the workings of class identity within the context of various influences over the course of a lifespan. The long arc of Carlson’s life (1906–1992) ultimately reveals significant continuities in her political consciousness that transcended the shifts in her particular partisan commitments\, most notably her life-long dedication to challenging the root causes of social and economic inequality. In that struggle\, Carlson ultimately proved herself to be a truly fierce woman. \nDonna Haverty-Stacke\, Professor of History at Hunter College of the City University of New York\, is a historian of working-class and radical politics. She is interested in the intersection of that history with nationalism and collective memory\, national security and free speech\, gender identity\, and Catholic activism. Her first book was America’s Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism\,1867-1960 (NYU Press\, 2009) and her second\, which she discussed four years ago here at ESFL\, was Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution since the Age of FDR (NYU Press\, 2015). \nGreg Poferl is a lifelong labor and Catholic social activist and a generous collaborator at ESFL. Last year\, Greg wrote his memoir\, Turning Points: Never Give Up on Anyone\, Especially Yourself (East Side Freedom Library\, 2020). \nLinda Leighton is a lifelong labor activist who has played a major role in maintaining local memory of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters’ strikes. \nMary Wingerd is Emerita Professor of History at St. Could State University and the author of Claiming the City: Politics\, Faith\, and the Power of Place in St. Paul (Cornell University Press\, 2001) and North Country: The Making of Minnesota (Minnesota Historic al Society Press\, 2010). \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-grace-holmes-carlson/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210223T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210223T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Hope in the Struggle
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nHope in the Struggle\nDr. Josie Johnson\nHistory Revealed Series\nFebruary 23\, 2021\nTuesday\, 7:00 pm\nwith Tish Jones and Peter Rachleff \nand in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nHope in the Struggle tells the story of how a Black woman from Texas became one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Minnesota\, detailing seven remarkable decades of fighting for fairness in voting\, housing\, education\, and employment. \nJosie Johnson will share her memoir about shouldering the cause of social justice during the darkest hours and brightest moments for civil rights in America\, and\, specifically\, in Minnesota. Hope in the Struggle shines light on the difference one person can make. For Josie Johnson\, this has meant making a difference as a Black woman in one of the nation’s whitest states. She will be joined by Peter Rachleff of the East Side Freedom Library. \nJosie’s story begins in a tight-knit community in Texas\, where the unfairness of the segregated South\, so antithetical to the values she learned at home\, sharpened a sense of justice that guides her to this day. From the age of fourteen\, when she went door to door with her father in Houston to campaign against the Poll Tax\, to the moment in 2008 when\, as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention\, she cast her vote for Barack Obama for president\, she has been at the forefront of the politics of civil rights. Her memoir offers a close-up picture of what that struggle has entailed\, whether working as a community organizer for the Minneapolis Urban League or lobbying for fair housing and employment laws\, investigating civil rights abuses or co-chairing the Minnesota delegation to the March on Washington\, becoming the first African American to serve on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents or creating the university’s Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs with a focus on minority affairs and diversity. An intimate view of civil rights history in the making\, Hope in the Struggle is a uniquely inspiring life story for these current dark and divisive times\, a testament to how one determined soul can make the world a better place. \nBorn in 1930 in San Antonio\, Texas\, Josie R. Johnson has been an educator\, activist\, and public servant for more than seven decades. Along with her work for the Urban League and the University of Minnesota\, she has been office manager\, campaign manager\, and chief of staff for multiple political campaigns and public officials\, including campaign manager for the first African American lieutenant governor of Colorado\, and co-chair of the African American DFL Caucus in Minnesota. She holds degrees in sociology\, education\, and education administration. She lives in Minneapolis and continues to serve her community\, advocating for equal rights and social justice. \nTish Jones is the Founder & Executive Director of TruArtSpeaks. She is a poet\, organizer and educator from Saint Paul\, Minnesota and is currently serving as the Brave New Voices Leadership Fellow at Youth Speaks in San Francisco. She has performed at The Walker Art Center\, Intermedia Arts\, The Cedar Cultural Center and more. Her work can be found in the Minnesota Humanities Center’s upcoming anthology entitled\, Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press\, 2015)\, the 2011 and 2013 Saint Paul Almanac\, the Loft Literary Center’s Nation of Immigrants audio CD. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-hope-in-the-struggle/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210218T203000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Art & History of the Persistence Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:The Art and History of the Persistence Exhibition\nPanel Discussion\nWith historian and exhibition consultant Dr. Bobbie Scott\, and artists Hannah Boehme\, Daniel Brevick\, Stephanie Kiihn\, Klaire Lockheart\, Anika Schneider\, Lesley Walton\, Sadie Ward\, Hilary Woods and Mary Younkin.\nHistory Revealed Series\nFebruary 18\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here \nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nJoin us for a panel presentation to explore the artwork and history behind RCHS’ Persistence: Continuing the Struggle for Suffrage and Equality\, 1860-2020 exhibition. This will be a panel discussion with the artists and historian Bobbie Scott to explore the making of the exhibition\, including creating the original artwork and the research that went into presenting the histories of each of the featured suffragists in the exhibition. \nFeatured image: Teresa Peyton by Klaire A. Lockheart
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-art-history-persistence-exhibition/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Exhibits & Research,History Revealed,Online Event,Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210211T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140717
CREATED:20210112T190008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T190008Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Sinking Middle Class
DESCRIPTION:The Sinking Middle Class\nA conversation with historian David Roediger\nHistory Revealed Series\nFebruary 11\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom and streamed on Facebook\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegistration: Zoom Registration Page\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n“Middle class” is an ideologically shaped and deployed term in American culture and politics. Activist-scholar David Roediger makes clear in his pointed and persuasive polemic\, this obsession with the middle-class is relatively new in US politics. It began with the attempt to win back so-called “Reagan Democrats” by Bill Clinton and it was accompanied by a pandering to racism and a shying away from meaningful wealth redistribution that continues to this day. \nDrawing on rich traditions of radical social thought\, Roediger disavows the thinly sourced idea that the United States was\, for much of its history\, a “middle-class” nation and the still more indefensible position that it is one now. The increasing immiseration of large swathes of middle-income America\, only accelerated by the current pandemic\, nails a fallacy that is a major obstacle to progressives. \n \nDavid Roediger taught in the 1990s at the University of Minnesota and now teaches American Studies at the University of Kansas. His books include Seizing Freedom\, The Wages of Whiteness\, How Race Survived U.S. History\, and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness and Working toward Whiteness. His book The Production of Difference (with Elizabeth Esch) recently won the International Labor History Association Book Prize. He is past president of the American Studies Association and of the Working-Class Studies Association. \nProfessor Roediger will be joined in conversation by: \nAugust Nimtz\, Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. August has been an activist in progressive movements in the Twin Cities (and beyond) since the 1970s with a particular emphasis on solidarity with the people of Cuba. \nKieran Knutson\, President of Communications Workers of America Local 7250 (Minnesota AT&T). Kieran has been a long time activist at the intersection of the racial justice and labor movements. \nMegan Brown\, Assistant Professor in the Masters in Advocacy and Political Leadership (MAPL) program at Metropolitan State University. A geographer by training and trade\, Megan has recently found her way to St. Paul. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-the-sinking-middle-class/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210210T190000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140717
CREATED:20210112T184817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T184817Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Workers on Arrival
DESCRIPTION:Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America\nDr. Joe Trotter\nWith Dr. William Jones\nHistory Revealed Series\nFebruary 10\, 2021\nWednesday\, 6:00-7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\nRegistration is limited. You will receive a confirmation email after registering.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nDr. Joe W. Trotter\, Jr. Giant Eagle Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University\, will discuss his book with moderator Dr. William Jones\, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota \nThis event is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota History Department\, the Labor and Working Class History Association\, the Ramsey County Historical Society\, and the East Side Freedom Library\, and it serves as a fundraiser for the East Side Freedom Library. It is part of two on-going series: the University of Minnesota History Department’s History Book Club and the “History Revealed” series co-sponsored by the Ramsey County Historical Society and the East Side Freedom Library. \nSince earning his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1980\, Dr. Trotter had had an enormous impact on the fields of African American and labor history. His books include Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat  (1985); Coal Class and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia\, 1915-1932 (1990); The Great Migration in Historical Perspective (1991); and several collections of essays and documents\, which have been central to the teaching of these fields. Workers On Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America  (2019) weaves Dr. Trotter’s research and writings into a single narrative which makes a compelling case for understanding the place of African Americans in U.S. history as producers\, as labor. \nFor this evening’s program\, Dr. Trotter will be engaged in conversation with another prominent historian of African American workers\, William P. Jones. A professor of history at the University of Minnesota and president of the Labor and Working Class History Association\, Dr. Jones is author of two award-winning books\, The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (2005) and The March on Washington: Jobs\, Freedom\, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (2013). He has been a guest on the PBS Newshour\, NPR’s “The Takeaway\,” and Democracy Now! and he has written for the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Nation\, and other publications. He is currently writing a book on public employees and the transformation of the U.S. economy after World War II. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-workers-on-arrival/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ramsey County Historical Society":MAILTO:info@rchs.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210121T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140717
CREATED:20201029T162759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201029T162759Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Winter Carnival
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nSt. Paul’s Winter Carnival: 135 Years of Fun…and Counting!\nKate Roberts\nHistory Revealed Series\nJanuary 21\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nYoutube Video: https://youtu.be/1cXk0X-1qkE\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nFor registration or other questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library \nKate Roberts\, Senior Exhibit Designer from the Minnesota Historical Society\, will share some of the history\, stories and trivia of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival. \nCelebrating 135 years in 2021\, the Saint Paul Winter Carnival was founded by city leaders to combat the notion that St. Paul was\, in the words of a New York correspondent\, “another Siberia\, unfit for human habitation.” Known for its parades\, Vulcans\, Klondike Kates and Ice Palaces\, the Saint Paul Winter Carnival has a history that includes contributions by architects\, performers\, bouncing girls\, and prominent citizens. Join us for this fun and fascinating online presentation! \nFeatured image: Winter Carnival Ice Palace.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-winter-carnival/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:All Ages,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210107T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140717
CREATED:20201229T153545Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Somewhere in the Unknown World
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nSomewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir\nKao Kalia Yang\nHistory Revealed Series\nJanuary 7\, 2021\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nYoutube video recording: https://youtu.be/FzHJsrG6stY\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\n \nAs the country’s doors were closing and nativism was on the rise\, Kao Kalia Yang—herself a refugee from Laos—set out to tell the stories of the refugees to whom University Avenue is now home. Here are people who have summoned the energy and determination to make a new life even as they carry an extraordinary burden of hardship\, loss\, and emotional damage.  In Yang’s exquisite\, poetic\, and necessary telling\, the voices of refugees from all over the world restore humanity to America’s strangers and redeem its long history of welcome. \n \nKao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She holds degrees from Carleton College and Columbia University. Yang is the author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir winner of the 2009 Minnesota Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction/Memoir and Readers’ Choice\, a finalist for the PEN USA Award in Creative Nonfiction\, and the Asian Literary Award in Nonfiction. Her second book\, The Song Poet won the 2016 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfiction Memoir\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Chautauqua Prize\, a PEN USA Award in Nonfiction\, and the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize. The story has been commissioned as a youth opera by the Minnesota Opera and will premiere in the spring of 2021. She is now writing a series of children’s books. \nFor this event\, before we open the virtual floor for questions and comments from audience members\, Yang will be joined in conversation by four readers of her book: \nSaymoukda Duanphouxay Vongsay is an award-winning Lao American poet\, playwright\, cultural producer\, and social practice artist. She is the author of the children’s book WHEN EVERYTHING WAS EVERYTHING (Full Circle Publishing) and is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Theater Mu. Visit her at www.SaymoukdaTheRefugenius.com and follow her @refugenius. \nThet-Htar Thet (she/her/hers) is a writer\, educator and activist originally from Yangon Myanmar. Now based in her home country\, Thet-Htar is focused on education reform and identity-driven writing as a consultant for UNESCO and a freelance creative nonfiction writer. \nSangay Taythi is a Tibetan refugee born in India who with his family immigrated to the United States in 1998.  He has been a community and labor organizer\, including the Students for a Free Tibet chapter at the University of Minnesota\, the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of Minnesota\, the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota\, the Tibetan National Congress and Tibetans for Black Lives and SEIU Healthcare Minnesota. \nNajaha Musse Najaha Musse is a 4th year medical student pursuing a doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine. Her family fled rural Ethiopia for a refugee camp in Nairobi Kenya\, and then settled in Minnesota where she began formal education in the 3rd grade. As the oldest in a family of 8 children\, she became the first in her family to graduate from high school and receive a college degree. While attending medical school\, Najaha has focused on social justice issues pertaining to educational access for disadvantaged students and social medicine.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/somewhere-in-the-unknown-world/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201203T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140717
CREATED:20201016T151926Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Turnout
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nTurnout: Making Minnesota the State That Votes\nJoan Growe and Lori Sturdevant\nHistory Revealed Series\nDecember 3\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister here on Zoom\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nPlease note that registration emails will be shared to Ramsey County Historical Society and the East Side Freedom Library. If you do not wish to share your email\, contact events@rchs.com. \n\n\nIn Turnout\, the architect and chief promoter of Minnesota’s high voter turnout tells her story\, showing how hard work and cooperation made the state a leader in clean\, open elections. \nHigh voter turnout in Minnesota is no accident. It arose from the traditions of this state’s early Yankee and northern European immigrants\, and it has been sustained by wisely chosen election policies. Many of these policies were designed and implemented during the twenty-four-year tenure of Minnesota secretary of state Joan Anderson Growe. \nIn inspiring and often funny prose\, Growe recounts the events that framed her life and changed the state’s voting practices. She grew up in a household that never missed an election. After an astounding grassroots feminist campaign\, she was elected to the state legislature in 1972; two years later\, she was elected secretary of state\, the state’s chief elections administrator. As one of the nation’s leading advocates for reliable elections and convenient voting\, Growe worked with county officials to secure Election Day registration (used for the first time in 1974) as a Minnesota norm. She brought new technology into elections administration and promoted motor voter registration. And as an ardent feminist\, she has encouraged and inspired scores of other women to run for office. \nJoan Growe and co-author Lori Sturdevant will discuss the book and Ms. Growe’s time in office with a talk that is part political history and part memoir\, and a reminder to Minnesotans to cherish and protect their tradition of clean\, open elections. \n“No matter what issue you care about\, the right to vote is central. And the fight to protect that fundamental right is the single greatest fight of our time. That’s why we need a twenty-first-century civil rights movement devoted to claiming\, enforcing\, and defending the right to vote. Joan Anderson Growe has given us an excellent guide for that work.”\nfrom the Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton \n\n\nAbout the Authors: \n\n\n\nJoan Anderson Growe served as Minnesota’s secretary of state from 1975 to 1999. Widely known as an expert on voting and elections\, she has served as an official election observer in various foreign elections.\n\n\n \nLori Sturdevant\, a retired Star Tribune editorial writer\, is the author of several books of Minnesota history\, including Her Honor: Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Women’s Movement.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-turnout/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140717
CREATED:20201013T193433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T193433Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Sinclair Lewis
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nSinclair Lewis: His Life\, Work and Relevance\nPatrick Coleman\nHistory Revealed Series\nNovember 19\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister Here\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library \nSinclair Lewis’s Main Street turned 100 years old this October. It was a publishing phenomenon that changed American Letters forever. In recognition of that event\, and to acknowledge this most famous son of Minnesota\, the Minnesota Historical Society will open an exhibit on Lewis in April of 2021. Patrick Coleman has been working on that exhibit and will share some of his thoughts on Lewis’s life and writings. There are still many rewards and lessons to be found in Lewis’s writings\, Coleman believes.\n\nPatrick Coleman has been the Acquisition Librarian at the Minnesota Historical Society for the past four decades. In that curatorial position he has been responsible for adding over 100\,000 volumes to the library\, making it the premier place for scholarship on all Minnesota topics. He is especially proud of the MHS library’s growth in the previously neglected area of Minnesota’s cultural history; fiction\, poetry\, fine press\, and artist’s books. \nColeman writes\, lectures\, Tweets and blogs on topics related to Minnesota’s culture and history. He served as the President of the Library of Congress’s Minnesota Center for the Book\, presided over the Minnesota Book Awards for several years. He has served on the boards of Coffee House Press and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts\, Friends of the University of Minnesota Library\, and the Minnesota Humanities Commission\, among others. Coleman received the Kay Sexton Award in 2009 for his contributions to Minnesota’s community of the book. Currently\, he serves as an Executive Leadership Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Integrative Leadership. \nHis current research focus concerns Sinclair Lewis and an upcoming exhibit at the Minnesota Historical Society to commemorate the 100 anniversary of the publication of Lewis’s Main Street. \nHis avocational interest include Irish literature (collecting one of few complete sets of the Cuala Press\, run by the sisters of W. B. Yeats\,) wilderness canoeing\, cross-country skiing\, and backpacking. He is a proud father and grandfather. \n\n\nFeatured image: Photo of Sinclair Lewis\, autographed to W. S. Leeds\, c. 1922. Courtesy of the Local History Center at The Post Washington Public Library
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-sinclair-lewis/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201121
DTSTAMP:20260410T140718
CREATED:20201118T200402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201118T200402Z
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SUMMARY:GiveMN 2020
DESCRIPTION:GiveMN 2020\nNovember 19\, 2020\nGiveMN pages are open and ready for donations!\nRCHS & Gibbs Farm: https://www.givemn.org/organization/Ramsey-County-Historical-Society-In-C \nThank you for supporting Ramsey County Historical Society & Gibbs Farm during Give to the Max Day! We are honored that you are here with us to celebrate the generosity and community spirit that defines us all as Minnesotans. \nOver the years\, Ramsey County Historical Society & Gibbs Farm has been fortunate to have seen this generosity and community spirit first hand. Our incredible donors have given more than $70\,000 on Give to the Max Day since 2009. This outstanding show of support is not the only way donors like you impact our organization. Last year\, more than 150 volunteers gave their time – more than 14\,500 hours of their time! – to help make Ramsey County Historical Society & Gibbs Farm the fantastic educational resource it is. \nDue to the outbreak of Covid-19\, you may not be able to visit us\, but we are working hard to bring our resources to you! Visit us at www.rchs.com to take a 360-degree tour of Gibbs Farm\, explore our historic photograph collection\, or read some of the fascinating stories that have helped define our County. \nTo learn about more of the exciting projects currently taking place at Ramsey County Historical Society & Gibbs Farm – and to find out how you can help – check out our featured campaigns at the RCHS & Gibbs Farm GiveMN page: https://www.givemn.org/organization/Ramsey-County-Historical-Society-In-C
URL:https://rchs.com/event/givemn-2020/
LOCATION:MN
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201117T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140718
CREATED:20201109T175203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201109T175203Z
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SUMMARY:Trivia Night
DESCRIPTION:Trivia Night with RCHS & Historic Saint Paul\nTuesday\, November 17\, 2020\n7:30 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister here on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZMrdeyqqTsiHtDP3Y0PE83xGhhyC…\n\n\n\nJoin RCHS and Historic Saint Paul for a fun\, online trivia event! All questions will highlight the history of our publishing program:\n\n\n\nIn what year was the first issue of the Society’s Ramsey County History magazine published\nWhat’s the name of our new podcast series that will soon be introduced to the public?\nWho is the winner of the 2020 Virginia B. Kunz award for best magazine article?\n\n\n\nTune in to see if you can answer historical questions about our magazine\, books\, podcasts\, authors\, and more! The viewer contestant with the most correct answers will win a free book from RCHS!\nContact editor@rchs.com with questions.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/trivia-night/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Publishing,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201111T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140718
CREATED:20201019T171720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T171720Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Democracy in MN During WWI
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nDemocracy on Hold: Minnesota during the Great War\nGreg Gaut\nHistory Revealed Series\nNovember 11\, 2020\nWednesday\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister here on Zoom\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded.\nPlease note that registration emails will be shared to Ramsey County Historical Society and the East Side Freedom Library. If you do not wish to share your email\, contact events@rchs.com. \nWhen thousands of Minnesotans went to Europe to “make the world safe for democracy” in WW I\, the legislature created the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety to govern the state for the duration of the war.  Led by John McGee\, a conservative lawyer\, it crushed any form of dissent\, labor organizing\, or German cultural expression. McGee organized the Home Guard as the commission’s main enforcement arm.  Composed of volunteers primarily from the business community\, Home Guard units helped defeat a Twin Cities transit workers strike\, conducted mass arrests of young men to check draft status (“slacker raids”)\, and physically harassed the campaign of Charles Lindbergh\, Sr\, the Nonpartisan League’s candidate for governor in 1918. Minnesota’s home front experience reminds us how easily “America first” patriotism can evolve into a dangerous\, intolerant nationalism\, how fragile civil liberties and the rule of law are in periods of great polarization\, and how tempting it can be for politicians to stir up hostility toward immigrants. \nGreg Gaut is emeritus faculty at Saint Mary’s University in Winona\, where he taught European and Russian history.  Since 2012\, he has worked as a historic preservation consultant\, preparing National Register of Historic Places nominations for buildings across the state from Worthington to Ely.  With his wife Marsha Neff\, he has contributed several articles to Minnesota History\, two of which won the Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians award for the best article on Minnesota’s built environment. A lover of libraries\, he has published Laird’s Legacy: A History of the Winona Public Library and Reinventing the People’s Library\, a history of the Arlington Hills Public Library\, now the East Side Freedom Library.  He is working on a book about the Minnesota home front during World War I. \nFeatured image: Black and white photograph of World War I soldiers from the Rainbow Division marching in a parade in downtown Saint Paul\, through an arch erected to commemorate those killed during the war. Photographer E.J. Stiefel. From the RCHS Collection.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/democracy-mn-wwi/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201031T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201031T160000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140718
CREATED:20201002T144154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201002T144154Z
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SUMMARY:Gibbs Farm Trick-or-Treat Trail [SOLD OUT]
DESCRIPTION:Halloween Trick-or-Treat Trail – 2020\nSaturday October 31st\nTHIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. \nBoo!  Book your visit to Gibbs Farm for the first ever socially distant trick-or-treat trail!  Dress up in costume and adventure down an outdoor path through the Gibbs Farm site.  Encounter fun and funny characters from storybooks and nursery rhymes like Mother Goose\, Little Bo Peep\, and the Big Bad Wolf\, all while collecting goodies! \nThe Gibbs Trick-or-Treat Trail will be a 30-40-minute adventure! \nPrior Online Registration for a specific time slot is required.  Book the experience for up to eight people in your group! Children 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult. \nPricing (10% off for RCHS Members):\n1-2 Guests: $15\n3-4 Guests: $25\n5-6 Guests: $35\n7-8 Guests: $45 \nHow we are keeping our guests and staff safe: \n\nA limited number of groups will be on site at a given time. Each group will move together through each station and will not interact with other guests.\nThe trail is completely outdoors. Bathrooms will be available if required\, but all other buildings will be closed.\nThe trail is timed and one-way with an immediate exit to the parking lot.\nMasks will be required for the entirety of the visit (exceptions are children under the age of 2). Please follow CDC costume mask guidelines. Please also note that per CDC recommendations\, face shields cannot be used in place of a mask.  Disposable masks will be available if needed.\nCostumed characters along the trail will be at least 6 ft. from guests.\nStaff or guests who are feeling unwell will be ask not to attend.\n\nCancellation Policy: \n-Registration cancellations must be made one week in advance in order to be eligible for a refund.\n-If Gibbs Farm cancels the event due to inclement weather\, the decision will be made by Friday evening and all registrants will be contacted and receive refunds.\n-If Gibbs Farm cancels the event due to Covid-19 related business closures\, all registrants will be contacted and receive refunds.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/gibbs-farm-trick-or-treat-trail-2/
LOCATION:Gibbs Volunteer Interest Form
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Children's Events,Family Events,Gibbs Events,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201022T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T140718
CREATED:20200930T202326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200930T202326Z
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Women's Suffrage in Minnesota
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nWomen’s Suffrage in Minnesota\nMichelle Witte\nHistory Revealed Series\nOctober 22\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nRegister here on Zoom\n \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nThe presentation will be recorded. \nIn partnership with the Roseville Library \nThe passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 expanded voting rights for women and opened up an entire new century of civic engagement. Come learn more about Women’s Suffrage in Minnesota\, and how our voting rights continue to expand – and be challenged – today. \nMichelle Witte\, Executive Director of the League of Women Voters Minnesota\, will share with us some of the unique history related to the “Votes for Women” movement here in our State\, and how the League of Women Voters continues to live out the mission of empowering voters and defending democracy as a nonpartisan\, civic engagement organization\, with 35 community-based chapters here in Minnesota. She’ll also be happy to answer your questions about our 2020 election. \nMichelle Witte is the Executive Director of the League of Women Voters Minnesota\, and also served as an elected school board member with South Washington County Schools.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/womens-suffrage-minnesota/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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