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Jan 8, 2024 · Star Tribune • January 8, 2023. 0. When St. Paul’s new City Council is sworn in on Tuesday, all of its seats will be filled by women for the first time in the city’s 170-year history. Some ...
The earliest recorded educational work for woman suffrage in Minnesota was in 1847, several years before the Civil War period, when Harriet Bishop, a teacher in Saint Paul, addressed small gatherings of women in the privacy of their parlors.
Mar 10, 2021 · Nellie Griswold Francis (1874-1969) An African American suffragist and Civil Rights pioneer in Minnesota. “Your children will reap the harvest of our solidarity — of our determination to stand together, to fight together, and, if needs be, to die together.”. – Nellie Griswold Francis, from a speech published in The Appeal, May 7, 1921.
Minnesota's first capitol building, built in 1854, c.1860. Saint Paul is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, the county seat of Ramsey County, and the state capital of Minnesota. The origin and growth of the city were spurred by the proximity of Fort Snelling, the first major United States military installation in the area ...
Mar 18, 2022 · 5 Minnesota women who shaped history. From left to right, Nellie Stone Johnson, Sarah Burger Stearns and Pat Bellanger. Photos courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. We're more than halfway through Women's History Month, a time to reflect on the contributions of women who shaped our world.
Jan 11, 2024 · According to researchers with the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, St. Paul is the largest U.S. city they are aware of to ever have an all-female city council. Photos ...
Jan 11, 2024 · Hwa Jeong Kim, a member and vice president of the St. Paul City Council, is photographed in an office in St. Paul, Minn., on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. Experts who track women in politics said St. Paul, with a population of about 300,000 people, is the first large U.S. city they know of with an all-female city council.
