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Veterans, Oral History, and The Minnesota Humanities Center

My first news update — how exciting! This year, I have had the great pleasure of becoming familiar with the work of the Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC), in particular its Veterans’ Voices program. This program shares veterans’ experiences through different

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Spotlight Oral History captures and shares the stories of individuals, organizations, and communities through in-depth interviews and historical research.

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2 weeks 4 days ago

Think controlling conception and birth is a straightforward "women's issue"? Think again, taking sterilization as an example. According to legal scholar Dorothy Roberts, sterilization became the most popular form of birth control in the U.S. in the 1970s, but a significant number of procedures were performed on poor women of color in coercive circumstances. A court case originating in 1973 discovered that 100,000 to 150,000 poor women had been sterilized annually in federally funded programs and that half of those women were Black. In Puerto Rico by 1968, more than 1/3 of women had been sterilized under the auspices of…

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I had no idea; this is sickening!

2 weeks 19 hours ago

Very upsetting. This along with the birth control pill experiments is just shameful.

2 weeks 4 days ago

Wow. I am sharing this!

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This is really upsetting to me and such evidence of how women of color have been abused for hundreds of years by white racist men.

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2 weeks 6 days ago

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3 weeks 2 days ago

The Minnesota Historical Society's "Votes for Women" online exhibit is up! Check it out! Unfortunately, COVID interrupted our work on the oral history project related to this exhibit, but two of the activists I interviewed -- Vangie Castro and Carolina Ortiz -- are featured in the short video on the exhibit's landing page. Take a look! At some point in the future, you'll be able to read and listen to their full stories, along with those of the nine other activists I interviewed. They have important words for us in 2020, as the right and responsibility to vote takes on…

Votes for women

What actions will you take to shape our democracy? On the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, find your inspiration in these stories of Minnesota women. Transcript | Watch Votes for Women on Vimeo The making of a movement The work of attaining voting rights for women spanned...

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Thanks to you Kim we had interviews and connections to start from.

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4 weeks 1 day ago

A good lesson in the limitations of the 19th Amendment, the intersection of race, gender, and class in advancing white women's political power, and the long fight for justice by Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American women. The activists I interviewed for the Women and Voting Rights Oral History Project continue the work of expanding the franchise so that we might all have a say in our country's future.

The 19th Amendment didn’t give women the right to vote

Its language — and effects — were much narrower.

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1 month 3 weeks ago

It's been a while since I've posted, I know. My oral history work has come to a standstill thanks to COVID-19, but the shutdown gave me the time and space to focus on my book manuscript. We're steaming ahead toward a March 2021 publication -- and we have a title and book cover!! I love working with the Minnesota Historical Society Press and my fabulous editor, Ann Regan! #Boothgirls #BMHoralhistory #historymattersevenduringapandemic

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Excellent news! Nothing like life coming to a standstill to make you focus on something!

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Best news of the week! I can’t wait to pick up my copy!!

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Congratulations, Kimi!

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So exciting! Cannot WAIT!!!!!

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