Police officers with motorcycles, St. Paul, 1941.

Mohamed Abdullahi, the first Somali police officer in the city of Minneapolis, on duty in 2012. Photograph by Bill Jolitz. Printed in Somalis in Minnesota, by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012), 50.

Adults and children celebrate Somali Independence Day in Minneapolis on July 9, 2016. The holiday is observed in Somalia every year on July 1. It celebrates the creation of Somalia through the unification of the former Italian Somaliland and the former British Somaliland on July 1, 1960. Photograph by Flickr user Fibonacci Blue. CC BY 2.0.

Women celebrate Somali Independence Day in Minneapolis on July 9, 2016. The holiday is observed in Somalia every year on July 1. It celebrates the creation of Somalia through the unification of the former Italian Somaliland and the former British Somaliland on July 1, 1960. Photograph by Flickr user Fibonacci Blue. CC BY 2.0.

Map of Somalia with inset showing its location relative to other parts of the world. Posted by Wikimedia Commons user TUBS, May 19, 2011. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Judges of the US Bankruptcy Court, District of Minnesota (1970–1982). Patrick J. McNulty is second from right. McNulty awarded damages to the plaintiffs of Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. in 1995. Public domain.

A view overlooking Eveleth and the Mesabi Iron Range. Photograph by Flickr user Peng, March 11, 2015. Originally available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/totorotpeng/16366751643 (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Betty Strohfus, a World War II Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP), talks about her life and experiences as a WASP pilot with airmen and their families during a visit to Nellis Air Force Base on September 27, 2012. Strohfus was stationed at the base when it was called the Las Vegas Army Airfield (1943–1944).

Betty Strohfus, a World War II Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP), talks about her life and experiences as a WASP pilot with airmen and their families during a visit to Nellis Air Force Base on September 27, 2012. Strohfus was stationed at the base when it was called the Las Vegas Army Airfield (1943–1944).