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SUMMARY:Immigration\, Identity & the Arts: The Song Poet
DESCRIPTION:NEA Big Read\nImmigration\, Identity and the Arts: The Song Poet\nwith Kao Kalia Yang\n\nSaturday\, November 12\, 1:00-2:00 pm\nHistory Revealed \nPart of the NEA Big Read series launched by American Composers Forum and East Side Freedom Library\, the “Immigration\, Identity\, and the Arts” series ss part of the NEA Big Read\, featuring Minnesota immigrant communities and NEA Big Read book “The Best We Could Do” by Thi Bui. \nPresented with the Ramsey County Historical Society\, Historic Saint Paul and the Minnesota Opera\, this event will feature Minnesota author and Hmong-American Kao Kalia Yang to discuss her book\, The Song Poet\, and her collaboration with Jocelyn Hagen about their opera presented by Minnesota Opera this Spring. \nRegister here \nA father’s love\, a family’s journey.\nThe first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage\, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir The Song Poet comes to life in this world premiere opera. It tells the story of Yang’s family and her song poet father as war drives them from the mountains of Laos into a Thai refugee camp and ultimately on to the challenging world of life as an immigrant. With his poetry\, Kalia’s father inspires hope in his family\, polishing their reality so that they might shine.  \nKao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She is the author of the memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir\, The Song Poet\, and Somewhere in the Unknown World. Yang is also the author of the children’s books A Map Into the World\, The Shared Room\, The Most Beautiful Thing\, and Yang Warriors. She co-edited the ground-breaking collection What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Native Women and Women of Color. Yang’s work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Chautauqua Prize\, the PEN USA literary awards\, the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize\, as Notable Books by the American Library Association\, Kirkus Best Books of the Year\, the Heartland Bookseller’s Award\, and garnered four Minnesota Book Awards. Kao Kalia Yang lives in Minnesota with her family\, and teaches and speaks across the nation. \n  \n\n \nAmerican Composers Forum believes that music is a medium that can help us connect as humans\, tell stories\, and share experiences. East Side Freedom Library has long hosted study groups\, partnerships\, and community events that lift up the stories of its neighborhood in the name of justice. Together\, we will host several cultural events and conversations examining the theme of “Immigration\, Identity\, and the Arts\,” to amplify the voices\, stories\, and music of immigrant artists and community members wrestling with this theme. Included in our events will be discussion of\, and inspiration from\, Thi Bui’s graphic memoir\, The Best We Could Do. Supported by the NEA’s Big Read project\, this book aligns greatly with our theme\, and resonates with so many members of our community. We are planning parallel in-person and virtual options to accommodate health and accessibility considerations. All events are free and open to the public. \nNEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/immigration-identity-the-arts-the-song-poet/
LOCATION:Landmark Center\, 75 W Fifth Street \, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story\nDocumentary Film Screening & Discussion\nwith Filmmakers Randy Croce\, Tom O’Connell\, and Anna Kuharjec\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, November 10\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe East Side Freedom Library\, Ramsey County Historical Society\, and Roseville Public Library invite you to a special session of History Revealed: The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story. This event will include a screening and discussion of a new documentary film.\n\nThe Farmer-Labor movement founded the most successful third-party in U.S. political history. This progressive movement elected candidates and advanced political change in Minnesota from 1917 until its merger with the Democrats in 1944\, to form the DFL\, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. The documentary portrays this history through the voices of Farmer-Labor leaders and their descendants\, as well as contemporary historians and activists. Animated segments bring the personal stories of Farmer-Labor men and women to life\, while songs from the period convey the spirit of the movement. \nWhile the movement’s ideas and achievements still affect Minnesota’s political and social fabric\, its history is largely unknown. The documentary addresses that awareness gap and points out how Farmer-Labor goals and the challenges still resonate today. \nPlease join filmmakers Randy Croce\, Tom O’Connell\, and Anna Kuharjec for a conversation after the screening. \nRandy Croce has been a documentary photographer and video producer since 1976. His PBS broadcast shows include Clouded Land\, If Stone Could Speak and Who built Our Capitol? He worked at the U of M Labor Education Service\, where he produced shows with workers and their unions. \nTom O’Connell is a retired professor of Political Studies from Metropolitan State University and served as founding chairperson of ESFL’s Board of Directors. He has taught and written about social movements with a special focus on MInnesota’s Farmer-Labor and Progressive Populist History. \nAnna Kuharjec has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois and is teaching in the History program of the Dougherty Family College of the University of St. Thomas. \nFree and open to all. \n\nThis presentation is part of our 2022 series “Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants.” \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, programs which focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Vikings in the Attic
DESCRIPTION:Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America\nwith Eric Dregni\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, October 20\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nGrowing up with Swedish and Norwegian grandparents with a dash of Danish thrown in for balance\, Eric Dregni thought Scandinavians were perfectly normal. Who doesn’t enjoy a good\, healthy salad (Jell-O packed with canned fruit\, colored marshmallows\, pretzels\, and even olives) or perhaps some cod soaked in drain cleaner as the highlights of Christmas? In Vikings in the Attic\, Dregni tracks down and explores the significant—and quite often bizarre—historic sites\, tales\, and traditions of Scandinavia’s peculiar colony in the Midwest. It’s a legacy of the unique—shots of turpentine for the common cold—but also one of poor immigrants living in sod houses while their children attend college\, the birth of the co-op movement\, and government agents spying on Scandinavian meetings hoping to nab a socialist or antiwar activist. \n \nEric Dregni is the author of 20 books including Vikings in the Attic\, Weird Minnesota\, Never Trust a Thin Cook\, Let’s Go Fishing!\, For the Love of Cod\, and Impossible Road Trip. He wrote about his 15-year experience running one of the Concordia Language Villages in You’re Sending Me Where? Dispatches from Summer Camp. As a Fulbright fellow to Norway\, he survived a dinner of rakfisk (fermented fish) thanks to 80-proof aquavit\, took the “meat bus” to Sweden for cheap salami with a busload of knitting pensioners\, and compiled the stories in In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream. \nHe is Professor of English\, Journalism\, & Italian at Concordia St. Paul and\, in the summer\, dean of the Italian Concordia Language Village\, Lago del Bosco. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three kids. \nMaking Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants\nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day. programs which focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-vikings-in-the-attic/
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Shared Community: Chicano Studies
DESCRIPTION:A Shared Community: Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota\nwith Dionicio Valdes\, PhD\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, September 8\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library \nLive presentation on Zoom \nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nDr. Valdes will take us on an examination of the birth and 20th century history of the Chicano Studies Department at the University of Minnesota\, with particular attention to the role played by the political turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s throughout the nation and in the Twin Cities.  He will focus on the creative ongoing tensions between advocates of distinct visions\, both within the academic world and within the Twin Cities community\, that created the Department and have supported it for more than half a century. \n \nProfessor Dionicio Valdes directed the U of M’s Ph.D. program in Chicano/Latino Studies and taught in it for 23 years before moving to Michigan State University.  He has been a very active and respected scholar. His publications include El Pueblo Mexicano en Detroit y Michigan: A Social History(private printing\, 1981); Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region\, 1917-1970(University of Texas Press\, 1991); Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press\, 2000); Mexicans in Minnesota (MinnesotaHistorical Society Press\, 2006); and Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement Before the UFW: Puerto Rico\, Hawai’i\, and California (University of Chicago Press\, 2011). \nMaking Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants\nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day. programs which focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-shared-community-chicano-studies/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Black\, Brown & Red Power
DESCRIPTION:Black\, Brown and Red Power in the Twin Cities: Parallels\, Intersections and Self-Determination in a Liberal Haven\nDr. Jimmy Patino\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, August 18\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe Twin Cities evolved in a unique and dynamic historical conjuncture in the long 1960s as a site in which African American\, American Indian and Mexican American communities were concentrated in an otherwise overwhelmingly white state. The emergence of Black Power\, the American Indian Movement\, and the Chicano Movement parallel and overlapping in a shared urban site speaks to the socio-political context of racialized injustice within a labor friendly and liberal progressive state. This presentation explores the direct and indirect overlap of these constituent communities’ struggles against police violence\, inter-residential violence related to concentrated poverty\, and physical and cultural displacement. These dynamic movements built infrastructure to confront these shared forms of repression\, but through their particular racialized communities: The Way organization in the Black community\, Centro Cultural Chicano in the Mexican community\, and in several independent schools in the American Indian community. These institutions—also evident in the emergence of the Black Patrol\, the AIM Patrol and the Brown Berets in addressing police violence—emerged independently to address the overlapping racial capitalist context and highlighting its differential articulation. However\, there were points of convergence and direct interaction\, culminating in the struggle for ethnic studies at the University of Minnesota\, among others. \n \nJimmy Patiño is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota.  His book Raza Sí\, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego was published in 2017. He has also written on Mexican American desegregation\, African American and Latina/o/x critical thought in hip-hop culture\, and is currently writing on ideas about solidarity and anti-capitalist thought across Black\, Brown and Red Power Movements.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-black-brown-red-power/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Dejsiab
DESCRIPTION:Dejsiab: From My Liver to Yours\nwith Mai Neng Vang\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, June 9\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n“Dejsiab: From My Liver to Yours” is a one of a kind poetry book that explores colonialism\, patriarchy\, hope\, and healing through a critical Hmong womxn’s lens. Author Mai Neng Vang will share her poems and process. \n“Through the years\, I’ve come to realize that healing is not a linear process – there are no definitive steps to take before one can say they have healed from their traumas. More than this\, healing looks different for everyone\, but regardless of how we heal or how long it takes us to heal\, healing is so necessary for us to reconcile with the generations of trauma and hurt that our ancestors\, mothers\, sisters\, aunties have endured…The poems found in this book are a series of love letters: love letters to who I was\, from who I am\, for who I will become. As a reader\, you bear witness to the struggles\, the joys\, and the thoughts that I have as someone who is constantly becoming. In this way\, we\, too\, are having a heart-to-heart throughout this book. I hope that you find relevance and solace in my words and are able to draw strength and dejsiab from these pages.” – Mai Neng Vang\, Author. \nImage: Front cover illustrated by: Peevxwm Lauj
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-dejsiab/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Sunrise Over Wat Thamkrabok
DESCRIPTION:Sunrise Over Wat Thamkrabok\nwith Dr. Brian V. Xiong & Marlin L. Heise\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, May 12\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nWhen Thailand closed refugee camps in December 1992\, Wat Thamkrabok (called Tha Ka Bo or Vaj Loog Tsua by Hmong) became a Hmong settlement until the last wave of some 15\,000 Hmong refugees were resettled in the United States in 2004-2006. At a 2017 Wat Thamkrabok Reunion in Minnesota held at the East Side Freedom Library\, “The Past in the Present: An Exhibition and Reunion Celebration for Hmong Families from Wat Thamkrabok\,” hundreds of photos and many items left behind were displayed\, including marbles\, an armless Barbie doll\, two small wooden stools\, and a skirt later identified. \n“SUNRISE OVER WAT THAMKRABOK: A Photographic Legacy of the Last Hmong American Refugees” is a history told in photographs and stories that encompasses the experiences of Wat Thamkrabok former residents in Minnesota and across the United States. Dr. Brian V. Xiong & Marlin L. Heise will talk about the making of the book and will give insight into the conditions of crowded refugee existence and the lives of our Hmong neighbors before they came to America.  \nThis book is made possible by Minnesota Humanities Center Legacy Cultural Heritage & Identity Grant\, Hmong Archives Wat Thamkrabok Collections\, and Hmong Educational Resources Publisher. \nMarlin L. Heise began working with a high school student\, Chia Thao in May 1981\, fostering his connection with Hmong all over the world. In 1982 he lived in Ban Vinai with Chia Thao’s uncle and family. Marlin crossed the Mekong to Vientiane in early 1998 and became connected with Hmong college students that continues. After retiring\, he had the opportunity to become involved with the Hmong Archives as its chief volunteer for daily work since it became a nonprofit in February 1999. \nDr. Brian V. Xiong is a Hmong American scholar\, researcher\, and higher education professional. He is an in-demand\, highly sought-after presenter\, speaking regularly to various groups of diverse students\, faculty\, and staff on the importance of diversity\, equity\, inclusion\, access\, and equal opportunity in higher education. He has served at both\, public and private\, two-year community colleges and four-year universities. \nDr. Xiong holds a bachelor’s degree in Justice Administration and Sociology from Southwest Minnesota State University\, a master’s degree in Multicultural and Ethnic Studies from Minnesota State University-Mankato\, and a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) from MSU-Mankato. Dr. Xiong is a former Page Scholar\, Wallin Scholar\, Cornwell Scholar\, Diversity & Equity Fellow\, Chief Diversity Officer & Affirmative Action\, and an Advisory Chief Diversity Officer for the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity. He is an active Executive Board member of numerous community services and nonprofit organizations. Dr. Xiong is the author of: \n\n A Clan of Our Own: Coming Out Experiences of Gay Hmong Men\nA New Journey: Hmong College Student Experiences\nPuag Thaum Ub: Hmoob Xeem\nMartha L. Zimmerman Paj Ntaub Collection\nSunrise Over Wat Thamkrabok\nHmong Teacher Experiences: Voices from the Field
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-sunrise-over-wat-thamkrabok/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Poor Farm
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed: Geographies of the Ramsey County Poor Farm\, from Minnesota Territory to the New Deal\nwith Jack Acomb\, Eva Stromgren\, Marisa Williamson\, and Henry Yackel\, Macalester College Geography Department\, Prof. Jesse McClelland\nHistory Revealed Series\nTuesday\, May 3\, 2022\n7:00-8:30 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library \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 questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to History Revealed: Geographies of the Ramsey County Poor Farm\, from Minnesota Territory to the New Deal\, a special presentation by Macalester College Geography students. \nRegister here to join this event on Zoom \nPoor farms were government-run homes for poor and vulnerable people that doubled as working farms. As a local response to extreme poverty\, poor farms spread across the US in the 19th Century up until the federalization of anti-poverty relief in the New Deal era. Minnesota’s first poor farm was founded by pioneer landholders in Ramsey County in 1854\, making it one of the first residential facilities in Minnesota Territory. Across four different sites\, the Ramsey County Poor Farm would shelter thousands of unpaid county residents while providing income to paid supervisors and workers and would provide nutrition to countless patients at the county hospital. Yet abuse and neglect at the Poor Farm – as well as ableist\, classist\, and anti-immigrant stigmatization of poor farm residents – kept this program a continual target of criticism. \nThe presentation explores the regulation of livelihood as a key mode of power in the colonial frontier. We seek to honor the often overlooked lives and ambitions of impoverished and marginalized people who lived and died on poor farms. We ask\, How might consideration of this often-overlooked institution and its residents shape ongoing popular debates about land\, dispossession\, welfare and belonging? \nPresenters are Jack Acomb\, Eva Stromgren\, Marisa Williamson\, and Henry Yackel – students in Geography at Macalester College. Jesse McClelland is their Professor. The presentation traces main archival findings for a practice-based advanced course\, Unearthing the Poor Farm: Local Geographies of Land\, Law and Livelihood\, which will be shared on a forthcoming website. \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-poor-farm/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Whiteness in Plain View
DESCRIPTION:Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota\nwith author Chad Montrie\nHistory Revealed Series\nWednesday\, April 6\, 2022\n7:00 pm\nSponsored by the East Side Freedom Library and Minnesota Historical Society Press\, in partnership with the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to the book launch of Whiteness in Plain View: Racial Exclusion in Minnesota with author Chad Montrie. \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 questions\, please email events@rchs.com \n\nMinnesota is a paradox. Widely seen as a progressive stronghold of the Midwest\, the state also has some of the greatest racial disparities in the nation. Those disparities have their roots in Minnesota’s earliest days as a territory and in the decades that followed. From enslaved people brought to the territory by military officers to migrants traveling to the North Star State after the Civil War\, African Americans have long been present in Minnesota’s history. Yet while many came here looking to establish new lives\, they were often met with White resistance and attempts to exclude them.Whiteness in Plain View examines the ways White residents across Minnesota acted to intimidate\, control\, remove\, and keep out African Americans over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their methods ranged from anonymous threats\, vandalism\, and mob violence to restrictive housing covenants\, realtor deceit\, and mortgage discrimination\, and they were aided by local\, state\, and federal government agencies as well as openly complicit public officials. What they did was not an anomaly or aberration\, in some particular place or passing moment\, but rather common and continuous. Chapter by chapter\, the book shows that Minnesota’s overwhelming Whiteness is neither accidental nor incidental\, and that racial exclusion’s legacy is very much woven into the state’s contemporary politics\, economy\, and culture. \nProfessor Montrie will be engaged in conversation at the East Side Freedom Library by a panel of invited discussants. The ESFL team will create a hybrid format in which online audience members\, both via zoom and Facebook\, will be able to participate in the conversation.  Join us! \n \n\n\nChad Montrie is a professor in the history department at the University of Massachusetts\, Lowell. He is the author of four books\, including The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism. His article “In that Very Northern City: Recovering a Forgotten Struggle for Racial Integration in Duluth” appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of Minnesota History magazine. \n  \n\nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-whiteness-in-plain-view/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Tikkun Olam
DESCRIPTION:Tikkun Olam: Jewish Women Serving Their St. Paul Community\nwith Kate Dietrick\, Gabrielle Horner\, and Janet Kampf\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, March 17\, 2022\n7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library \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 questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home. \nFive women from St. Paul’s Jewish community—Hannah Austrian\, Sophie Wirth\, Annie Paper\, Gretta Freeman\, and Rhoda Redleaf embraced and helped resettle impoverished Jewish immigrants through education efforts\, job training\, and by providing relief. They also rallied for basic rights\, stepping up in times when progressive actions by women were often frowned upon. While their names may have been forgotten by most\, their work to make the world a better place still impacts the local community to this day. Their lives provide insights into Jewish immigrant life in the upper Midwest in the late nineteenth century. \nAuthors and historians Kate Dietrick\, Gabe Horner and Janet Kampf will present the stories of these women and the long-lasting effects that their efforts have had on the Jewish community. \nTo learn more\, see the Ramsey County History article in the Fall 2021 issue. \nImage: Boys at the Lake Rest Vacation Home\, established in 1911 was renamed Sophie Wirth Camp in 1926 to honor the work of Sophie Wirth. \nKate Dietrick is the archivist for the Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives at the University of Minnesota. She is a resident of St. Paul and a member of Mount Zion Temple. \nGabrielle Horner is a descendant of Italian\, German and English immigrants to St. Paul and is a lifelong resident. She is coauthor of A Grand History: The Summit Hill Neighborhood’s First 200 Years. \nJanet Kampf joined Mount Zion Temple in 1968 and is a member of The Women of Mount Zion Temple. She is the past chair and the current secretary-treasurer of Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-tikkun-olam/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Scottie Primus Davis
DESCRIPTION:Scottie Primus Davis: A Story Forgotten to Time\nwith Mary K. Boyd\, Chester C. Owens Jr.\, Granvile T. O’Neal and Steve Trimble\nOther panelists may be announced. Moderated by Meredith Cummings\, RCHS Editor\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 17\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nScottie Primus Davis spent her formative years in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, growing up under the tutelage of involved parents and well-respected “movers and shakers\,” including J. Q. Adams\, the Farr sisters\, Nellie Francis\, and others. So\, it wasn’t a surprise when the determined Davis became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Minnesota\, hired on as a no-nonsense English teacher\, and continued her lifelong learning\, completing a master’s degree from Harvard University. But now we have the honor of learning about the incomparable\, the unforgettable (Miss) Scottie Primus Davis. \nHistorian Steve Trimble\, author of an article in Ramsey County History magazine on Miss Scottie Primus Davis\, will be joined by educator Mary K. Boyd in a panel discussion moderated by RCHS Editor Meredith Cummings. \nImage: Scottie P. Davis in her graduation photo from the University of Minnesota. Photo courtesy of University of Minnesota archives and the Saint Paul Almanac. From Ramsey County History magazine. \n\n\n\nMary K. Murray Boyd is President and CEO of MKB & Associates\, Inc.\, an education and human services consulting business. Ms. Boyd has extensive experience in management\, leadership\, communications and coalition building\, serving in a variety of roles professionally and in the Saint Paul community. She held several positions in the Saint Paul Public Schools beginning as a teacher’s aide and retiring in 2001 as an Area Superintendent. Since retiring from Saint Paul Public schools\, Boyd has served in three interim positions\, Manager of Ramsey County Child Protection\, Director of Ramsey County Community Human Services Department’s Family and Children’s Services Division and Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Hamline University. She has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of St. Thomas and at the University of Minnesota. \nChester C. Owens Jr. is a retired business owner\, veteran\, historian\, community activist\, and student of Miss Scottie P. Davis in the late 1940s/early 1950s. He served in the U.S. Air Force. In the early 1960s\, he worked with the Northwest District Citizens Committee and the NAACP to desegregate the downtown shopping district in Kansas City\, Kansas\, and served as chairman of the NAACP’s Labor and Industry Committee from 1960 to 1963. In 1976\, Owens bought H.W. Sewing and Co.\, serving as president of the agency. In 1983\, he was elected to the City Council of Kansas City\, making him the first African American elected in the 20th century. Serving two terms on the council\, he also briefly served as deputy mayor in 1984. Owens retired as president of H.W. Sewing and Co. in 1998. Owens has also served on numerous boards and as president of the Northeast Business Association\, on the boards of Homeowner’s Task Force for the State of Kansas\, the Economic Opportunity Foundation\, and Sumner High School Alumni Association. He is also a member of Sigma Pi Phi and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternities. He is the recipient of numerous awards\, among which are the Kansas City\, Kansas Leadership Award in 1989\, of which he was the first ever recipient; the Kansas City Globe’s One Hundred Most Influential Citizens in 1990; the 2012 Outstanding Leadership Award presented by the Kansas House of Representatives;  the NAACP Civil Rights Award; and the Friends of Yates’ Black Man of Distinction Award. Owens has also been honored through the naming of the Chester C. Owens Sumner Alumni Room and The Chester Owens Jr. Construction Skills Training Center\, which houses a U.S. Department of Labor-run program called YouthBuild\, both named in 2011. \nMr. Owens will be joined by Granvile T. O’Neal\, an actor and fine arts professional based in Kansas City\, Kansas. O’Neal serves on the board of the Traditional Music Society and is curator for the Chester C. Owens Sumner Alumni Room\, which maintains artifacts\, memorabilia\, and historical information on Sumner High School. He also has numerous commercial\, voice overs\, and film credits. \nSteve Trimble is an author\, a historian\, and a frequent contributor to the Dayton’s Bluff District Forum. He is a member of the Ramsey County Historical Society Editorial Board\, and has written a number of articles for our magazine\, Ramsey County History\, including an article on Scottie Primus Davis in the Winter 2022 issue. Steve is a frequent lecturer\, author\, and book collector.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-scottie-primus-davis/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Harriet Scott
DESCRIPTION:Settler Colonialism Seen Through the Life of Harriet Scott\nwith Jane Henderson\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, February 10\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nScholars of institutionalized racism have used the term “settler colonialism” to characterize the development of the United States — and many other countries. While this has been a useful concept leading to the asking — and answering — of productive questions\, it has often\, perhaps too often\, been deployed at a level of abstraction that seems remote from the ways that indigenous people\, white people\, immigrants\, and African Americans have lived their lives and interacted with each other. \nJane Henderson’s research engages the conversation around American slavery in the North within the framework of the expansion of the U.S. nation state through the frontier.  Fort Snelling\, the first white American settlement in the Minnesota territory\, was also the site of the first Black community in the state.  Henderson’s research draws on letters of prominent military officials\, merchants\, and others involved in “Indian business.”  She probes the letters and records of Lawrence Talliaferro\, an Indian agent for the Federal Government tasked with administering  annuity payments to Dakota and Ojibwe peoples\, in exchange for claims to their land.  Talliaferro was one of the largest slave owners in the Minnesota territory.  Henderson uses these sources to trace the life of Harriet Robinson\, who was owned by Talliaferro and held at Fort Snelling. In 1836/37\, she met and married Dred Scott\, who 20 years later would earn a place in history by suing for his freedom\, his case reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.  Henderson uses Harriet (and Dred) Scott’s lives not only as pathways into reconstructing the lives of enslaved women and men at Fort Snelling but also to illuminate the shifting political economy of the region from centering the fur trade toward an economy based on the commodification of land\, the commercialization of trade\, and the exploitation of labor\, both enslaved and free.  Her presentation\, while centered on the previously little told story of an individual enslaved woman\, will raise important questions about the relationships between U.S. militarism\, slave labor\, genocide\, and emancipation on the frontier. \nImage: Harriet Robinson Scott\, from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated\, New York\, June 17\, 1857. \n \nJane Henderson grew up in the Twin Cities before earning a BA in Ethnic Studies and Spanish at the University of San Diego. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at UC-Berkeley\, and she has returned to Minneapolis to research her dissertation on Black place-making in Minnesota. \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-harriet-scott/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Making Minnesota,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Making Minnesota - Saint Paul
DESCRIPTION:Making Minnesota: The Story of Saint Paul\nBill Lindeke\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 20\, 2022\n7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library \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 questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe Ramsey County Historical Society\, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations\, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people\, African Americans\, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day\, Making Minnesota: Natives\, Settlers\, Migrants\, and Immigrants. These programs focus on the too often lost\, erased\, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home. \nBill Lindeke will explore this topic as it relates to the history of Saint Paul in the second program in the series. The first will be “We Are Meant To Be Here” on January 13\, 2022. More information on both these programs and the series will be coming soon. \nBill Lindeke is an urban geographer and writer who focuses on how our environments shape our lives. He wrote MinnPost’s “Cityscapes” column from 2014 to 2017\, has written articles on local food and drink history for City Pages and the Growler\, and has taught urban geography at the University of Minnesota and Metro State University. He writes a local urban blog at Twin City Sidewalks and is a member of the Saint Paul Planning Commission. He is the author of Minneapolis–Saint Paul: Then and Now and the coauthor of Closing Time: Saloons\, Taverns\, Dives\, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities with Andy Strdevant. His most recent book is St. Paul: An Urban Biography\, a concise history of St. Paul. \nTo purchase titles from the History Revealed series\, or other books of interest\, see our partner\, Subtext Books at https://subtextbooks.com/ \nImage: Postcard titled “St. Paul\, 1856\,” describing the cover as an oil painting by S. Holmes Andrews. The first Minnesota Territorial Capitol building is in the center far background. From the RCHS Collection.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-making-minnesota-saint-paul/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: We Are Meant to Rise
DESCRIPTION:We Are Meant to Rise\nwith Carolyn Holbrook\, David Mura\, Suleiman Adan\, Marcie Rendon and Kevin Yang\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nThursday\, January 13\, 2022\, 7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and the Roseville Library.\nWe Are Meant to Rise is presented in partnership with More Than a Single Story and the University of Minnesota Press. \nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting\, register on Zoom here. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to join us for our first History Revealed for 2022 with a panel discussion of We Are Meant to Rise as we kick off our series\, “Making Minnesota” which will explore the often untold stories\, histories and experiences of the immigrant\, African American and Indigenous communities that make up our most diverse county. \nWe are Meant to Rise (published by the University of Minnesota Press) is a brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond\, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota. These writers bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in U.S. history\, with essays and poems that vividly reflect the traumas we endured in 2020. \nArising out of Carolyn Holbrook’s work with her organization\, More Than a Single Story\, We Are Meant to Rise merges the events of today\, the past year\, and the centuries before\, in works that are powerful testaments to the intrinsic and unique value of all who make up our community\, lifting up the often overlooked voices of BIPOC writers in Minnesota. \nWe are honored to have some of these writers join us in a panel discussion about their writing and experiences. Editors Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura will be joined by authors Suleiman Adan\, Marcie Rendon and Kevin Yang\, who will share their perspectives on the events of the past year\, from the Covid pandemic to the murder of George Floyd\, to the world-wide demands for racial justice\, and how those recent experiences tie into past histories. \nWe Are Meant to Rise contains works from authors with international reputations to those newly emerging; and features people from many cultures\, including Indigenous Dakota and Anishinaabe\, African American\, Hmong\, Somali\, Afghani\, Lebanese\, Korean\, Vietnamese\, Japanese\, Puerto Rican\, Colombian\, Mexican\, transracial adoptees\, mixed race\, and LGBTQ+ perspectives. \nAs editor David Mura says in the book’s introduction\, “Diversity is our strength. Each new voice who becomes part of America is our strength. The writers in this anthology provide us with individualized portraits of who we are\, and in doing so they can help us to know each other\, our neighbors\, our fellow citizens. These writers prove we are indeed more than a single story.” \nPanelist Bios \n \nCarolyn Holbrook is founder and director of More Than a Single Story\, as well as the founder of SASE: The Write Place. She is a writer\, educator\, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her essay collection Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify (Minnesota\, 2020) received a Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is coauthor of Dr. Josie Johnson’s memoir Hope in the Struggle (Minnesota\, 2019)\, and her essays have been published widely\, in A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota\, as well as many other publications. She was the first person of color to win the Kay Sexton Award from the Minnesota Book Awards and the Friends of the St. Paul Public Libraries for contributions to Minnesota literature\, and was a “50 over 50” honoree in 2016. \n \nDavid Mura has written ten books\, including the memoirs Turning Japanese\, a New York Times Notable Book; Where the Body Meets Memory; and four poetry collections\, After We Lost Our Way\, a National Poetry Contest winner; The Colors of Desire\, which received the Carl Sandburg Award; Angels for the Burning; The Last Incantations; and A Stranger’s Journey: Race\, Identity\, and Narrative Craft in Writing. He teaches at VONA\, a writers’ conference for writers of color\, and has worked with Alexs Pate’s Innocent Classroom\, a program designed to improve relationships between teachers and students of color. \n \nSuleiman Adan is a writer\, educator\, and grassroots organizer in the Twin Cities. He works as a program manager with Reading and Math Inc. and is also a Quran/Arabic and Islamic studies teacher at the Northwest Islamic Community Center in Plymouth\, Minnesota. He is a project manager and board chair for the Global Alliance of Muslims for Equality\, an international NGO. \n \nMarcie Rendon\, White Earth citizen. Girl Gone Missing\, Soho Press\, second in the Cash Blackbear series was nominated for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award\, 2020. Murder on the Red River\, Soho Press\, received the Pinckley Women’s Debut Crime Novel Award 2018 and was a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist 2018. Sinister Graves\, third in the Cash Blackbear series\, will be published by Soho in 2022. Rendon has children’s books\, plays\, short stories and poetry published. Her script\, Sweet Revenge had a staged reading at the Playwright Center in partnership with the Guthrie\, 2021. Rendon received the 2020 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award\, to honor a Minnesota artist who has made significant contributions to the state’s cultural life. She curated TwinCities Public Television’s Art Is… CreativeNativeResilience 2019. Diego Vazquez and Rendon received the 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for work with incarcerated women. \n \nKevin Yang is a multimedia storyteller born and raised in the Twin Cities who finds most of his inspiration unraveling his Hmong American experience with others. He creates in the mediums of spoken word poetry and documentary filmmaking. He represented Hamline University at the College Union Poetry Slam invitational and was a New Angle Documentary Fellow at Saint Paul Network. \nTo purchase We Are Meant to Rise and other History Revealed titles\, we hope you will visit our partner\, Subtext Books at 6 West Fifth Street in downtown Saint Paul\, or check out their website at https://subtextbooks.com/
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-we-are-meant-to-rise/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Jean Follett
DESCRIPTION:A Little-Known Story: Jean Follett\, Women Artists\, and the St. Paul School of Art\nwith Melissa Rachleff Burtt\nHistory Revealed Series\nTuesday\, December 14\, 2021\n7:00 pm\nIn partnership with the East Side Freedom Library\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdeyhrDsiGtXe9f_bxxmOQk0vJTnhZ0xQ After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nFor questions\, please email events@rchs.com \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to our final “History Revealed” for 2021. \nJean Follett grew up on the East Side of St. Paul\, served in the U.S. military during World War II\, and moved to New York City\, where she played an active role in the development of the post-war art scene. In 1962\, Follett returned to St. Paul where she joined other local women in the contentious arguments around aesthetics\, the roles of art in society\, and the roles of gender and the places of immigrants in the art world. These arguments had swirled around the St. Paul School of Art (today the Minnesota Museum of Art\, or the “M”) since the Progressive Era (before World War I) and they continued through the Great Depression\, World War II\, and the Cold War years. \nMelissa’s focus on Jean Follett\, who has never received the attention her artistic work deserves\, provides a window into these arguments and their impact on the art world\, including the “applied arts\,” architecture\, engineering\, natural history (including the founding of the Science Museum)\, art museums\, and more\, from St. Paul to New York City. \nMelissa Rachleff is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Administration Program at NYU: Steinhardt\, where she concentrates on the nonprofit sector. In 2017 she curatedInventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City\, 1952-1965 for NYU Grey Art Gallery and wrote/edited the accompanying book\, which is co-published by the Grey and Prestel Publishing. Melissa began her career as the assistant curator at Exit Art and co-curated exhibitions on the intersection of visual art and documentation. She also worked on exhibits about under-examined artists at mid-career. As a program officer for the New York State Council on the Arts from 1999-2007\, Melissa was an advocate in supporting contemporary art projects done in collaboration with local communities. She has written about artist organizations for a variety of publications\, and her essay\, “Do It Yourself: A History of Alternatives” was published in Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces (MIT Press) in 2012. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1968\, Melissa curated Narrative & Counternarrative: (Re)Defining the Sixties for NYU’s Bobst Library.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-jean-follett/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Turning Points
DESCRIPTION:Turning Points\nwith Greg Poferl\n\n\n\n\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nAugust 12\, 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\nOr you may watch the program live on Facebook\, on the East Side Freedom Library page. \nThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to our monthly “History Revealed” program featuring Greg Poferl and his memoir\, Turning Points: Never Give Up On Anyone\, Especially Yourself. \nWe are especially excited about this opportunity to provide our communities with a unique vantage point into our shared history\, while also providing an example about the value of self-reflection. Greg Poferl has been a committed and generous individual\, dedicated to fostering social justice from the workrooms of the U.S. Postal Service and the classrooms of Cretin-Derham Hall High School to protests at the School of the Americas and support for the struggles of workers and farmers in Central America. Greg has been integral to the development of the East Side Freedom Library\, from cleaning our bathrooms and thwarting squirrels and raccoons on our roof to mentoring middle and high school students in National History Day projects. \nGreg has written a memoir which provides insight into the history of St. Paul from the 1950s to the present while also providing us with a model of living a life rich with commitment\, from his family\, union\, and community\, to the world. . For a copy of Turning Points\, at $15 each\, please contact the East Side Freedom Library at 651-207-4926 or email: info@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org. \nTurning Points reflects on kids at play and growing up in St. Paul in the 1950s and 1960s\, and it moves on to stories about military service\, labor struggles and strikes\, directing youth in social justice theater projects\, peace and justice actions\, a sentence in federal prison\, teaching social studies\, and experiencing the overwhelming love of family. Please join Greg as he shares this book and his journey with us. \nFree and open to all.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-turning-points/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Labor Movement in 1934 & Today
DESCRIPTION:What the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters’ Strikes Can Suggest About Meeting the Challenges Faced by Today’s Labor Movement\nTuesday\, July 20\, 2021\n7:00 pm – 9:00 pm\nInitial Speakers:\nPeter Rachleff\, Professor and founder of the East Side Freedom Library\nKieran Knutson\, President of CWA 7250\nDavid Van Deusen\, President Vermont AFL-CIO \n\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\nThe 1934 July Minneapolis Teamsters’ strikes were part of a mass movement of workers in the United States that brought the greatest unionization in the history of the United States. We invite you to watch John DeGraaf’s compelling film\, “Labor’s Turning Point\,” and then engage with a panel which will discuss the strike’s relevance to the challenges facing working people and the labor movement today. \nThe panelists will include ESFL’s Peter Rachleff\, David Van Deusen\, President of the Vermont AFL-CIO\, and Kieran Knutson\, President of CWA Local 7250 (AT&T workers\, Minnesota). \nHelp us explore what we can learn from the Minneapolis Teamsters’ strikes in 1934 and their impact throughout the local and regional labor movements. \nRegister to join this event on Zoom. \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-labor-in-1934-today/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210708T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Welcoming the Dear Neighbor
DESCRIPTION:Welcoming the Dear Neighbor?: Housing Inequality and Race in Ramsey County\nDr. Rachel Neiwert and Dr. Kristine West\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nJuly 8\, 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\nAn interdisciplinary group of St. Catherine University faculty\, staff\, and students have partnered with the Mapping Prejudice project to learn more about the history of housing inequality and race in Ramsey County during the twentieth century. \nDr. Rachel Neiwert\, associate professor of history\, and Dr. Kristine West\, associate professor of economics will share what they have been learning about this history in our community.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-welcoming-the-dear-neighbor/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210622T190000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event,Presentation,Publishing,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210423T183000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210408T190000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210304T190000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210223T190000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210211T190000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210210T190000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210107T190000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201203T190000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Online Event
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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/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201001T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Suffrage at 100
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nSuffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920\nStacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow\nHistory Revealed Series\nOctober 1\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpfu-orT0vGt00wZt19hHO5Nd1u3cLld8K \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEditors & authors Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow will discuss their book\, Suffrage at 100\, which looks at women’s engagement in US electoral politics and government over the one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. \nIn the 2018 midterm elections\, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senate—a record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment\, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020—a stated goal of the National Women’s Political Caucus at the time of its founding in 1971—remains a distant ideal. In Suffrage at 100\, Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow brought together twenty-two scholars to take stock of women’s engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years. \nThis is the first wide-ranging collection to historically examine women’s full political engagement in and beyond electoral office since they gained a constitutional right to vote. The book explores why women’s access to\, and influence on\, political power remains frustratingly uneven\, particularly for women of color and queer women. Examining how women have acted collectively and individually\, both within and outside of electoral and governmental channels\, the book moves from the front lines of community organizing to the highest glass ceiling. \nEssays touch on: \n• labor and civil rights\n• education\n• environmentalism\n• enfranchisement and voter suppression\n• conservatism vs. liberalism\n• indigeneity and transnationalism\n• LGBTQ and personal politics\n• Pan-Asian\, Chicana\, and black feminisms\n• commemoration and public history\n• and much more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStacie Taranto is an associate professor of history at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She is the author of Kitchen Table Politics: Conservative Women and Family Values in New York.\nLeandra Zarnow is an assistant professor of history and affiliated faculty in the Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. She is the author of Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug.
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-suffrage-at-100/
CATEGORIES:Book Event,History Revealed,Library Programs,Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200917T190000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: Closing Time 2020
DESCRIPTION:Ramsey County Historical Society Presents\nBill Lindeke & Andy Sturdevant\, Closing Time: Saloons\, Taverns\, Dives\, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities\n\nHistory Revealed Series\nSeptember 17\, 2020\nThursday\, 7:00 pm\nLive presentation on Zoom\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwocOipqDoiGdGdnOHk121NVwVcEePd5L-p\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 \nAn entertaining journey into the highs\, lows\, bright spots\, and dark corners of the Twin Cities’ most famous and infamous drinking establishments—history viewed from the barstool. \nIn 1838\, a rum trader named “Pig’s Eye” Parrant built a small shack in a Mississippi bluff that became the first business in the city of St. Paul: a saloon. Since then\, bars\, taverns\, saloons\, and speakeasies have been part of the cultural\, social\, and physical landscape of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Serving as neighborhood landmarks\, sites of political engagement\, welcoming centers for immigrants\, hotbeds of criminal activity\, targets of ire from church and state alike\, and\, of course\, a place to get a drink\, the story of the taverns and saloons of the Twin Cities is the story of the cities themselves. \nIn Closing Time\, Bill Lindeke and Andy Sturdevant dive into tales from famous and infamous drinking establishments from throughout Twin Cities history. Readers are led on a multigenerational pub crawl through speakeasies\, tied houses\, rathskellers\, cocktail lounges\, gin mills\, fern bars\, social clubs\, singles bars\, gastropubs\, and dives. Featuring beloved bars like Matt’s\, Palmer’s\, the Payne Reliever\, and Moby Dick’s\, the book also resurrects memories of long-forgotten establishments cherished in their day. Lindeke and Sturdevant highlight neighborhood dives\, downtown nightspots\, and out-of-the-way hideaways\, many of which continue to thrive today. Closing Time brings together stories of these spaces and the people who frequented them. \nBooks will be available for purchase at Subtext Books. \nBill Lindeke\, Ph.D.\, is an urban geographer and writer who focuses on how our environments shape our lives. He wrote MinnPost’s Cityscapes column from 2014 to 2017\, has written articles on local food and drink history for City Pages and the Growler\, and has taught urban geography at the University of Minnesota and Metro State University. He writes a local urban blog at Twin City Sidewalks and is a member of the Saint Paul Planning Commission. He is the author of Minneapolis-Saint Paul: Then and Now. \nAndy Sturdevant is an artist and writer living in Minneapolis. He has written about art\, history\, and culture for a variety of publications\, including City Pages\, Belt\, and Mpls.St.Paul. He currently writes a regular column for Architecture MN\, and for five years\, Andy wrote “The Stroll\,” a weekly column on Twin Cities neighborhoods\, art\, history\, and architecture in for MinnPost. He is the author of Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow and Downtown: Minneapolis in the ’70s. \n 
URL:https://rchs.com/event/history-revealed-closing-time-2020/
CATEGORIES:History Revealed,Online Event
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