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This Day in Minnesota History (June 24)

1924

Herbert Huse Bigelow, of the Brown and Bigelow publishing firm, is sentenced to three years in prison for income tax evasion. He had long argued that an income tax punished initiative, and he had expected to be fined rather than jailed for his transgression.

1948

African American leaders in the Twin Cities reject an offer to establish an "all-Negro" unit of the Minnesota National Guard. The group tells state adjutant general Ellard A. Walsh that it cannot accept the offer as a matter of principle. Walsh had proposed forming a truck company so that Minnesota's African Americans could take advantage of a provision in the draft law that exempted guardsmen from the draft.

1996

At the federal courthouse in St. Paul, White Earth Ojibwe leader Darrell "Chip" Wadena and others are convicted of corruption and vote-buying charges. Wadena is sentenced to four years in prison.

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