Demolition of the Met Center (Metropolitan Sports Center) in Bloomington, 1994. The stadium was demolished after the North Stars hockey team left Minnesota. A common refrain among North Stars fans, who blamed owner Norm Green for abandoning the state, was “Norm sucks.”
Members of Local 7295 of the Communications Workers of America volunteered their time and labor to help tear down a home destroyed by the tornado at 6887 Channel Road in Fridley, May 18, 1965. Minneapolis Star photograph by Jack Gillis. Minneapolis Star Tribune photographs collection arranged by subject (box 166), Minnesota Historical Society
Demonstration, led by 15 Now Minnesota, for higher pay and better working conditions at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, December 2014. Photograph by Ginger Jentzen; used with the permission of Ginger Jentzen.
A demonstrator walks out of the bursar’s office in Morrill Hall during a student protest on the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus. Photograph by Ted Hammond of the Minnesota Daily, January 15, 1969.
Oromo people gather at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul on July 25, 2007, to demonstrate for Oromo rights and self-government in their homeland. Photo by Oromia Entertainment. CC BY-SA 2.0
Gene Ritchie’s artwork for Denfield High School’s yearbook, The Oracle (faculty page), Duluth, 1926. Used with the permission of Jean E. Monahan Kelly.
Dennis Banks (left), Russell Means (center), and David Hill (right) inside the courthouse in Custer, South Dakota, 1973. From box 3 (152.B.11.3B) of Wounded Knee Legal Defense / Offense Committee records, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.