Anna Arnold Hedgeman, ca. 1950s. Used with the permission of Hamline University.

Anna Arnold Hedgeman

Anna Arnold Hedgeman, ca. 1950s. Used with the permission of Hamline University.

Hedgeman, Anna Arnold (1899–1990)

With a career spanning fifty years, Anna Arnold Hedgeman was an educator, civil rights advocate, and writer. In 1963, she was the only woman on the planning committee for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Patty Berg, of Minneapolis, ca. 1935. Berg was one of the founding members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and is in the World Golf Hall of Fame.

Patty Berg

Patty Berg, of Minneapolis, ca. 1935. Berg was one of the founding members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and is in the World Golf Hall of Fame.

The Lady Warriors (a basketball team representing Cedar-Riverside, a neighborhood in Minneapolis) pose with the University of Minnesota mascot Goldy Gopher and Minnesota Lynx mascot Prowl during project recognition at a Minnesota Lynx WNBA game, August 30, 2015.

Minneapolis women’s basketball team at a Lynx game

The Lady Warriors (a basketball team representing Cedar-Riverside, a neighborhood in Minneapolis) pose with the University of Minnesota mascot Goldy Gopher and Minnesota Lynx mascot Prowl during project recognition at a Minnesota Lynx WNBA game, August 30, 2015.

Irene Gomez of the Police and Community Relations Task Force. Photograph by Erickson Studio, ca. 1983.

Irene Gomez-Bethke

Irene Gomez-Bethke of the Police and Community Relations Task Force. Gomez-Bethke was also the Human Rights Commissioner for the state of Minnesota between 1982 and 1983. Photograph by Erickson Studio, ca. 1983.

St. Paul police officer Debbie Montgomery in uniform, 1975. Used with the permission of Debbie Montgomery.

Debbie Montgomery

St. Paul police officer Debbie Montgomery in uniform, 1975. Used with the permission of Debbie Montgomery.

Clotilde M. Irvine and her children

Clotilde M. Irvine and her children

Clotilde M. Irvine (Mrs. Horace H.) with her children, Elizabeth, Thomas, and Clotilde, 1917.

Textile Workers Union of the Congress of Industrial Organizations urging members to register to vote Photograph by Lee & Palmer, 1948.

Textile workers promoting voter registration

Textile Workers Union of the Congress of Industrial Organizations urging members to register to vote Photograph by Lee & Palmer, 1948.

Dorsey, Ida (1866–1918)

Employing the racial prejudices and fantasies of elite male clients once used against her, Ida Dorsey established herself as one of the Twin Cities’ most notorious madams, running multiple brothels between the 1880s and the 1910s. As a woman of color in an industry dominated by white women, she demonstrated herself an adept entrepreneur and real estate owner when most women had neither income nor property.

A view of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial Garden, looking northeast, 2019. Photo by Linda A. Cameron.

View of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial Garden

A view of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial Garden, looking northeast, 2019. Photo by Linda A. Cameron.

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