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Children’s Books This national Links, Incorporated program established reading rooms in inner-city libraries across the country. Locally, the Minneapolis/St. Paul (MN) Chapter donated culturally-relevant books to Rondo Library (St. Paul) and Sumner Library (Minneapolis), and established reading rooms at local elementry schools and the Minneapolis site of the…

50 Years of the Minneapolis/St. Paul (MN) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated 1972-2022 Linked In Friendship, Connected in Service Racial discrimination in Philadelphia was pervasive in both employment and housing and World War II brought new urgency to the struggle for civil rights. In 1945, the Philadelphia NAACP (National Association…

Woman’s March 2017 Memories of the 2017 Women’s March RCHS member Judy Kishel participated in the Women’s March on Washington in 2017. Hundreds of thousands of women all over the country marched for equal rights, and thousands more traveled to Washington D. C. to participate in the march on the…

Rosalie Wahl In the 1970s, DFL women began to organize and work for more women to be appointed in government. They set their sights on getting a woman appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court. This would allow them to last beyond the current governor. Rosalie Wahl (1924-2013) was the first…

PRISM Campus Alliance from St. Paul College marched in the Minneapolis Pride parade in June 2019. Minneapolis Star-Tribune file, Nicole Neri. In 1989, Governor Rudy Perpich proposed a state commission to study adding sexual orientation to the proposed Human Rights Act, which did not pass. Governor Arne Carlson issued an…

Katie McWatt Kathleen Curry McWatt Born in 1931, Kathleen Curry McWatt (1931-2010) grew up in Minneapolis. As a first grader, and the only African American child in her school, she was followed home by a group of white children who threatened to lynch her. With the support of her parents…