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CeCe McDonald

CeCe McDonald speaking in San Francisco on November 9, 2016, during her Black Excellence tour. Photo by Pax Ahimsa Gethen. CC BY-SA 4.0

Andrea Jenkins in Storied: Queer Voices

The Storied: Queer Voices series interviews Andrea Jenkins, a poet, writer, transgender activist, and educator. Jenkins, a Ward 8 council member and vice president of the Minneapolis City Council, holds an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and teaches poetry at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is a co-editor of Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride. Her book of poetry is titled The T is Not Silent: new and selected poems. Her writing is also featured in the MNHS Press books Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota and A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota.

Grey, Emily O. Goodridge (1834–1916)

Emily Grey was one of the first African Americans to settle in Old St. Anthony, where she owned and successfully operated her own business as a seamstress. She was active in religious and civic affairs and popular among Black and white residents alike. Best known for initiating the effort to free an enslaved woman named Eliza Winston in 1860, she weathered mob violence for her efforts. She rebuilt her home and business after the incident and lived in Minneapolis for the remainder of her life.

Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro

Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro, ca. 1984.

Ruth Nomura

Ruth Nomura in Corvallis, Oregon, ca. 1925. P095:093 of the John Garman Photographic Collection, 1894-1966, Historical Images of Oregon State University, Oregon Multicultural Archives, OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Graduates of Oregon State Agricultural College

Graduates of Oregon State Agricultural College, 1930. Ruth Nomura is third from the right. P025:0596 of Oregon State University Historical Photographs, 1868-1980, Historical Images of Oregon State University, OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Edna Larrabee

Edna Larrabee (left) and a Shakopee Reformatory for Women matron after Larrabee turned herself in to police. Published in the Minneapolis Tribune on March 28, 1948.

Edna Larrabee and Beulah Brunelle

Edna Larrabee and Beulah Brunelle in 1948. Composite of photographs published in the Minneapolis Star, November 22, 1948.

Escape from Shakopee State Reformatory for Women, 1949

Beulah Brunelle (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) and Edna Larrabee escaped from Shakopee State Reformatory for Women five times between 1946 and 1949. Though most of the breakouts ended in their recapture within a few days, their fourth escape, in 1949, led to eight months of freedom and allowed the two women to live together as a couple while traveling around the United States.

Nellie Stone Johnson at Nellie's Shirt and Zipper repair shop

Nellie Stone Johnson at work inside Nellie's Shirt and Zipper repair shop, Lumber Exchange Building 1035, Minneapolis, November 1980. Photograph by Elizabeth M. Hall.

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