Exhibits

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…

The Links, Incorporated produces and supports outstanding programming through their five facets: • Services to Youth • The Arts • National Trends and Services • International Trends and Services • Health and and Human Services Services To Youth The Links, Incorporated created its first program facet,…

Camp Courage Partnership Health and Human Services is the newest facet, a part of National Trends and Services until 2010. For approximately five years starting in 1994, Links members from the local chapter sponsored a weeklong summer camp for children with sickle cell disease, with an emphasis on youth…

Books for Africa Partnership Books for Africa provides free resources to schools and social agencies in Africa. Links members and debutantes packed books together for the organization. The books serve an important role in the rebuilding of school libraries in countries ravaged by war and internal strife. Debutantes pack…

National Trends and Services Voter registration: Links members Dr. Delores Henderson, Links member Marcia Murray, Gloria Anderson, Links member Shawn Renee Kennon, J.D., Marvin Anderson, Links members Diane Jones Smith, Mercedes Henderson Clark, Natalie Dixon, and Heir Link, Alicia Smith, 2020. Get Out The Vote The Minneapolis/St. Paul (MN)…

Throughout the nation today, The Links, Incorporated chapters partner with museums, symphonies, arts councils, educational institutions, and corporations to advocate for art programs, especially where there is a focus on artists of color. Links members champion opportunities for educating minority youth in the arts. They present and support performances by…

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…