Minnesota State Representative Ilhan Omar, 2017. Omar was elected to the US House of Representative in 2018. Photograph by Wikimedia user Leopaltik1242; CC BY-SA 4.0.

Morgan’s Mexican & Lebanese Foods at 736 Robert Street, St. Paul, November 1980.

Circular pin-back button produced by the Minnesota Vietnamese Immigration Organization, ca. 1980s.

Teacher instructing Hmong students in American presidential history at Lao Family Community Center, Young Men’s Christian Association, St. Paul, ca. 1980s.

Otto Werner, a member of the New Ulm National Guard, teaches English to Southeast Asian refugees, ca. 1974.

Certificate of naturalization issued by the US Department of Justice to Swedish immigrant Swan Victor Anderson of Duluth, 1950.

A teacher instructs students during a naturalization class at the International Institute, St. Paul, 1940.

English class for Spanish-speaking women held in St. Paul, 1930s. The class was organized by the Works Progress Administration’s adult education department.

Finnish woman and child on the Iron Range, ca. 1925.

Immigrants taking oath of citizenship, Minneapolis Council of Americanization, 1925.