Cecil Newman at his desk in his office, ca. 1950s. Photograph by the Minneapolis Tribune.

Cecil Newman, ca. 1965. Photograph by Rohn Engh.

Minneapolis City Council member Phillipe Cunningham (Ward 4), January 8, 2018. Photo by Flickr user Tony Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Article about Cecelia Regina Gonzaga published in the St. Paul Globe (page 2) on August 21, 1885.

Archie, the teddy-bear mascot of the North Country Bears, and a sub friend at the North Country Bears booth at Twin Cities Pride. Photograph by Randy Stern, June 23, 2012.

The Storied: Queer Voices series interviews Andrea Jenkins, a poet, writer, transgender activist, and educator. Jenkins, a Ward 8 council member and vice president of the Minneapolis City Council, holds an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and teaches poetry at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is a co-editor of Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride. Her book of poetry is titled The T is Not Silent: new and selected poems. Her writing is also featured in the MNHS Press books Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota and A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota.

Lynne Jackson talks about her great, great-grandparents, Dred and Harriet Scott, who lived at Fort Snelling before taking their fight for freedom to the US Supreme Court.

The family of Emily O. Goodridge Grey. From Patricia C. Harpole, ed., “The Black Community in Territorial St. Anthony: A Memoir,” Minnesota History 49, no. 2 (Summer 1984), 45.