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Prince’s Childhood Home
The Nelsons purchased this home on Eighth Avenue North in March 1965. For the previous seven years they had been living at 915 Logan Avenue North. They kept that house and rented it out. It has since been demolished.
Prince’s musical genius…
Racial and Ethnic Tensions in Minnesota's Suffrage Movement
When Jamar Clark died after being shot by Minneapolis police in November 2015, hundreds of people gathered in the square outside Minneapolis's City Hall to demand justice. #BlackLivesMatter, then only two years in existence, led the march. The fight…
What is Feminism?
It is fitting to begin a tour about the struggle for women's rights at the Mary Tyler Moore statue. Moore was both a real actress (1936-2017) and the title character in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a popular sitcom set in Minneapolis that ran…
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Votes for Women: Hennepin County
12 Locations ~ Curated by Jacqueline deVries and students in the Augsburg University History Department, in partnership with the Hennepin History MuseumCentennial of the Armistice: The Commemoration of World War I in the Twin Cities
11 Locations ~ Curated by Matt Berning (Author and Creator), Dr. Maheen Zaman (Advisor)Cedar-Riverside: From Snoose Boulevard to Little Somalia
15 Locations ~ Curated by Anduin (Andy) WilhidePurple Places: A Digital History Tour of Prince's Minneapolis
26 Locations ~ Curated by Kirsten Delegard, University of Minnesota; Michael Lansing, Augsburg University; Kristen Zschomler, Minnesota Department of Transportation. Technical support for this project provided by Christy Mattingly and Stewart Van Cleve, Augsburg University.Recent Stories
After Suffrage: Becoming Citizens
On September 8, 1919, the Minnesota state legislature ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, becoming the 15th state to do so. Eleven months later, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment. Once it became law in August 1920, the…
Women's Suffrage and World War I
A turning point for the suffrage movement came in April 1917, when the United States entered the First World War. Historians have argued that suffrage volunteerism during the war helped persuade opponents of women's civic capacities. …
Racial and Ethnic Tensions in Minnesota's Suffrage Movement
When Jamar Clark died after being shot by Minneapolis police in November 2015, hundreds of people gathered in the square outside Minneapolis's City Hall to demand justice. #BlackLivesMatter, then only two years in existence, led the march. The fight…
The Press and Women's Suffrage
The main sources of news in 1914 were either neighborhood gossip or the local newspaper. Radio only became widely available in the late 1920s. Local papers could easily sway public opinion, so suffragists were keen to attract positive news coverage.…
Arts and the Suffrage Movement
The arts can be powerful tools for social and political change. Local suffrage organizations used a variety of creative strategies to engage the public. They organized historical pageants and skating carnivals. On special “suffrage days” they…
Women Who Opposed Suffrage
Not all women believed in equal suffrage. Minnesota was among twenty states that had an organized anti-suffrage movement.
There were two anti-suffrage organizations based in Hennepin County -- the Minnesota Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage…
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