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Minnesota honors civil rights legend: Juanita Jackson Mitchell helped reestablish Twin Cities NAACP branches

By Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Juanita Jackson Mitchell (1913-1992) only lived in St. Paul for four years, but her impact during that stint laid an eventual path to many firsts in Minnesota. The Juanita Jackson Mitchell Crusader for Freedom Exhibit, a compilation of Mitchell’s personal photographs and other artifacts, was on display at the State Capitol May 8-14.

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"I’m Not Your Indian Any More": Over 40 years of American Indian Movement history featured in exhibit

By Laura Waterman Wittstock, The Alley

The American Indian Movement will open its first exhibit telling the story of its history on May 10th at the All My Relations Gallery. Planning for the exhibit has been underway for months, as Executive Director Clyde Bellecourt and AIM’s board of directors worked to narrow down thousands of choices to a fraction of the holdings that depict the history of the Movement. They chose a photographic exhibit, featuring the work of Dick Bancroft, long known informally as the “AIM photographer,” and Roger Woo, a photographer who worked in black and white in AIM’s earliest years.

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Bald Eagle: On Record!

05/20/2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

We will explore the many different types of resources that the White Bear Lake Area Historical Society preserves for our communities.  Bald Eagle functions as a wonderful example of a communit

Organizing in the Ranks: Racism and Resistance in the U.S. Military

05/16/2013 - 7:00pm

Hear stories from historians and veterans about clashes and convergences surrounding race and military engagements: Yuichiro Onishi (Transpacific Antiracism), and Dr. Malinda Lindquist (Race, Social Science, and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970), professors in the African-American and African Studies department at the University of Minnesota; and Melvin Carter, Jr., a Navy veteran of the Vietnam era and founder of "Save Our Sons."

All Labor Has Dignity

05/21/2013 - 7:00pm

Join professional actor and Macalester College Professor Harry Waters for a re-enactment of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1962 speech to the Minneapolis convention of the United Packinghouse Workers, where King drew connections between the labor and civil rights struggles. Music and related readings will complement his performance.

Dred Scott's Fight for Freedom

05/21/2013 - 1:30pm

MAAM presents Lynne Jackson, the great-great granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott and director of The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, who will discuss the role of the 1857 Supreme Court decision and its effect on the abolition of slavery.

TCDP TOP PICK | Annual Labor History Tour: Steel Rails, Strong Hearts

05/19/2013 - 2:00pm

TCDP TOP PICK: The railroad business was one of the great forces that built Minnesota, and black workers were an integral part of that business—from laying the rails on up. On May 19, historians Dave Riehle and James Robinson will lead a tour of St. Paul sites associated with this underappreciated chapter of local labor history. - Jay Gabler

Wounded Knee fortieth anniversary honored with three days of activities on Pine Ridge

By Bill Means, The Circle

(Photos by Larry Long)

People came from the Four Directions to gather at the historic village of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, on the forty year anniversary of Wounded Knee 1973. Wounded Knee veterans and many non Indian supporters arrived for three days of activities to honor those who participated in Wounded Knee in 1973, and to honor the 250 Indian people who were massacred in 1890 by the US Calvary and are buried in a mass grave at Wounded Knee.

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