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This Day in Minnesota History

April 8, 1953

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Responding to the first-ever sit-down strike at Minnesota State Prison in Stillwater, warden Carl Jackson meets the prisoners' demands for nourishing, sanitary food by firing the prison's chef. During the strike, which began on April 7, the locked-down prisoners littered the corridors with trash and broke a number of windows.

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