Dorsey Willis in December 1972. Photograph by John Croft for the Minneapolis Tribune. From box 317 of the Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper negatives collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Nellie Stone Johnson was a labor organizer, activist, and the first Black elected official in Minneapolis. Hear what she has to say about her work in this video.

Meals On Wheels packaging machine invented by Oscar C. Howard. Manufactured between 1970 and 1990.

Spices packet manufactured by Oscar Howard Frozen Foods, Inc., in Minneapolis, ca. 1980.

In this segment of MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds, Britt Aamodt looks at Frederick McKinley Jones, the inventor of the refrigerated truck.

Britt Aamodt tells the story of Eliza Winston and her suit for freedom in Minnesota.

Britt Aamodt tells the story of Toni Stone, the first woman to play professional baseball (on a men's team).

Stormé DeLarverie (center), a Black drag performer, and three other drag performers at Roberts Show Club, Chicago, 1958.

Painting of vaudeville performer and drag artist Karyl Norman (“The Creole Fashion Plate”), who performed in Minnesota in the 1920s. Photograph by James Hargis Connelly. Reproduced from National Vaudeville Souvenir Artists. (New York: Vaudeville Managers Protective Association, 1923). Public domain.

Cecil Newman (far right) and members of his family with Karl Rolvaag (back row, second from left). The picture was taken by Earl McGee and probably dates to Rolvaag’s term of office as the thirty-first governor of Minnesota (1963–1967).