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Carl Thomas Rowan

Picture of Carl Rowan taken during his time as an ensign in the United States Navy. Uploaded by Flickr user Tennessee State Library and Archives, February 11, 2013. CC BY-NC-ND-2.0.

Carl Rowan

Rowan in Washington, DC, ca .1997. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND-2.0) license.

Rowan, Carl Thomas (1925–2000)

Carl Thomas Rowan was a prominent American journalist, author, and government official. A liberal commentator and champion for civil rights, Rowan published books and a variety of news columns syndicated across the US. He was one of the first commissioned black officers in the US Navy, and became the highest-ranking black government official of his time.

Osmund Osmundson

Osmund Osmundson, ca. 1910

Osmundson, Osmund O. (1826–1914)

Osmund Osmundson, founder of Nerstrand, Minnesota, played a prominent role in a variety of local affairs, including business, civics, and education. He was one of several men who incorporated St. Olaf College in 1874. Built in 1880, his spacious brick house in Nerstrand was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Woman-suffrage banner

Woman-suffrage banner used by the St. Paul Political Equality Club, 1920–1936.

Governor J. A. O. Preus and Idelle Preus

Minnesota Governor J. A. O. Preus and Idelle Preus voting, ca. 1920.

Suffrage cartoon

Suffrage cartoon by A. T. Reid from the Minneapolis Tribune, showing the tally of suffrage states by political parties as of July 16, 1920. The man represents southern Democrats who had a reputation for being anti-suffrage.