Hallie Q. Brown Director Alice S. Onqué at her desk, ca. 1955. Image courtesy of Hallie Q. Brown Community Archives.

Hat retailed by Newman's department store and worn by Merrie E. Barr to Pilgrim Baptist Church in St. Paul in 1956. Barr lived on Fuller Avenue in the Rondo neighborhood.

The Willmar 8 outside the Citizens National Bank of Willmar (Kandiyohi County) during their first days on the picket line, December 1977. From box 51 of the St. Paul Dispatch/Pioneer Press photographs arranged by subject (photographs collection), ca. 1910–1985, Minnesota Historical Society.

Not every West Coast American of Japanese descent was herded into an internment camp after Pearl Harbor. Some, like Ruth Tanbara and her husband, Earl, were compelled to relocate to places like St. Paul, Minnesota. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

Claire O'Connor was a freshman at the University of Minnesota in June 1961, when she took a Greyhound bus into the heart of Jim Crow. The Freedom Rider shares her story with Britt Aamodt.

Lena Olive Smith, ca. 1920s.

Newspaper coverage of Lydia B. Angier’s 1896 commitment hearing: “Will Be Cared For,” St. Paul Globe, November 14, 1896, page 8, col. 4.

Lydia B. Angier, ca. 1899. Photograph from box 113.H.I.4F-1 of the Fergus Falls State Hospital casebooks, 1890–1904, State Archives Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul. Volume 12 (file nos. 2335–2633, October 1898–April 1899) contains case records regarding patients and their care, their care at prior institutions, and demographic and medical details, in addition to photographs of patients.