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Charles Lee

The president of the United Packing House Workers of America (UPWA) union Local 6Local 6, Charles Lee, 1959. Minneapolis Star Tribune portraits collection (news photos, box 108), Minnesota Historical Society

Charles Lee with attorney, sheriff, police lieutenant, and lawyer

The president of the United Packing House Workers of America (UPWA) union Local 6, Charles Lee (second from left), with Freeborn County attorney O. Russell Olson (far left), sheriff Everette Stovern (third from right), police lieutenant Woodrow Chrz (second from right), and union lawyer Doug Hall (far right), 1959. Minneapolis Star Tribune portraits collection (news photos, box 108), Minnesota Historical Society.

National Guardsmen confronting strikers

Members of the National Guard confront striking meatpacking plant workers in Albert Lea. Printed in the Minneapolis Morning Tribune, December 12, 1959. Original caption: “National Guardsmen dispersed crowds at Wilson Gate early Friday morning.” Photograph by Charles Brill.

Martial Law in Albert Lea, 1959

In the winter of 1959–1960 a bitter packing-house workers’ strike against Wilson & Company in Albert Lea descended into such disorder that Governor Orville Freeman declared martial law. A federal district court later ruled his order unlawful.

Nina Clifford’s brothel at 147 South Washington Avenue in St. Paul, down the street from Ida Dorsey’s brothel at 151 South Washington Avenue. Photograph by A. F. Raymond, 1937.

One of Nina Clifford's brothels

Nina Clifford’s brothel at 147 South Washington Street in St. Paul. Photograph by A. F. Raymond, 1937.

Second Street North from Second Avenue North, Minneapolis

A street scene at the intersection of Second Street North and Second Avenue North, Minneapolis, around the time that Ida Dorsey operated a brothel on Second Avenue. Photographer unknown, ca. 1912.

220 Eleventh Avenue South, Minneapolis

Building at 220 Eleventh Avenue South, Minneapolis, close to Ida Dorsey’s Eleventh Avenue bordello. Photograph by Joseph Zalusky, ca. 1890s.

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.

Hormel strikers' picket line

Hormel Foods employees link arms to form a picket line during the 1985–1986 strike against that company.

Police release tear gas on Hormel protesters

On April 10, 1986, police use tear gas on workers protesting the Hormel Foods company. Minneapolis Star Tribune negatives collection, box 596 (Hormel strike images).

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