Color image of Demonstrators gather at the State Capitol in St. Paul to show their support of Minnesota Amendment 1. Photographed on May 20, 2011, by Flickr user Tom Morris.

Amendment supporters at the State Capitol

Demonstrators gather at the State Capitol in St. Paul to show their support of Minnesota Amendment 1. Photographed on May 20, 2011, by Flickr user Tom Morris.

America First Association button

America First Association button

America First Association brass button, created ca. 1918.

America First Association parade float

America First Association parade float

America First Association float in the Thanksgiving parade, St. Paul, 1918.

America First Association poster

America First Association poster

America First Association poster designed by Howard Chandler Christy ca. 1920.

America First Committee meeting

America First Committee meeting

Meeting of the America First Committee at the Minneapolis Auditorium, May 10, 1941; Shipstead is second from left.

American Crystal Sugar Company parade float

American Crystal Sugar Company parade float

A woman sits on the American Crystal Sugar Company parade float at the Arkansas Valley Fair, September 1949. From the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association records, 1919–1994, Northwest Minnesota Historical Center, Moorhead. Used with the permission of Northwest Minnesota Historical Center.

Black and white photograph of an exterior view of the American Crystal Sugar factory in Chaska. Date and photographer unknown.

American Crystal Sugar factory, Chaska

Exterior view of the American Crystal Sugar factory in Chaska. Date and photographer unknown.

American Crystal Sugar factory, Moorhead

American Crystal Sugar factory, Moorhead

The brand-new American Crystal Sugar factory in Moorhead, 1948. From the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association records, 1919–1994, Northwest Minnesota Historical Center, Moorhead. Used with the permission of Northwest Minnesota Historical Center.

American Dream movie poster

American Dream movie poster

The Academy Award-winning documentary film American Dream, directed by Barbara Kopple, chronicles the Hormel strike, exploring the human cost of the economic decline in America’s heartland. Kopple captured the tension between the strikers, the parent union, and Hormel through failed negotiations and demonstrations. The film shows P-9 members banding together to help each other as the strike dragged on. American Dream also follows union infighting, fights with replacement workers, and P9’s hiring of consultant Ray Rogers, who specialized in union strategizing and gaining public support. Used with the permission of Barbara Kopple.

American flag ceremony

American flag ceremony

American flag ceremony at the 2007 Festival of Nations, sponsored by the International Institute and held in the St. Paul RiverCentre and Roy Wilkins Auditorium, May 3‒6, 2007.

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