Saluma Omar in her jewelry shop inside Karmel Mall in Minneapolis. Photograph by Bill Jolitz, 2012. Printed in Somalis in Minnesota, by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012), 55.
African Union (AU) Special Representative for Somalia and AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia) Ambassador Maman Sidikou (left) greets a Somali business owner in Minnesota during a tour of Somali communities throughout the state in September 2015. Public domain.
Lois Jenson and her coworkers Patricia S. Kosmach and Kathleen Anderson filed the lawsuit Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. in 1988, after years of harassment at Eveleth Mines on the Mesabi Iron Range. The case became the first sexual harassment class action tried in US federal court and set a precedent for future harassment trials.
For twenty-five years, between 1890 and 1915, Moorhead, Minnesota, was infamous for being a rough and rowdy saloon town. The reputation was well deserved, as alcohol sales were the city’s number one industry