Exhibitions

It was early in 1965 when Selma, Alabama, became the focus of Black voter registration efforts by Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). At the time, due to Jim…

RCHS opens the Selma 70 exhibit with a panel discussion featuring pilgrims who attended the 50th anniversary of the Selma March in 2015 On April 24, 2025, RCHS hosted panelists Vanne Owens Hayes, Mary K. Boyd, and Otis Zanders as they shared their stories spanning the decades since the Civil…

RCHS will be featuring Women’s History Month on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/RamseyCountyHistoricalSociety. Watch for more posts throughout the month! And check out our online exhibition, Persistence: Continuing the Struggle for Suffrage and Equality, 1848-2020 which recognizes the champions who struggled to achieve voting rights for women…