{"product_id":"minnesota-history-quarterly-fall-2016-65-3","title":"Minnesota History Magazine Fall 2016 (65:3)","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSenator Allan Spear and the Minnesota Human Rights Act by Joshua Preston\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRebel Girls: Women in the Mesabi Iron Range Strike of 1916 by David LaVigne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA War of Words: The Mesaba Ore and Hibbing News Takes on the “Big Fellows” by Andrea C. Allard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eARTICLES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSenator Allan Spear and the Minnesota Human Rights Act\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby Joshua Preston\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt took two decades and eight failed attempts before Allan Spear and his legislative colleagues successfully amended Minnesota’s Human Rights Act in 1993 to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. Spear died before he could include this story in his unfinished 2010 autobiography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebel Girls: Women in the Mesabi Iron Range Strike of 1916\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby David LaVigne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistories of the strike mostly ignore women’s contributions beyond the prominent role played by IWW organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Working-class women did contribute by confronting mining company abuses, participating in industrial sabotage, setting up pickets, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA War of Words: The Mesaba Ore and Hibbing News Takes on the “Big Fellows”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby Andrea C. Allard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePassionate support of striking Range miners in the summer of 1916 by a small, but highly vocal Iron Range newspaper eventually put father-son publisher-editors Claude and Marc Atkinson in the line of fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEPARTMENTS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEyewitness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn apartment living room concert captured by Twin Cities rock photographer Dan Corrigan sends Danny Sigelman down memory lane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJane King Hession marvels at an ultra-modern Hibbing elementary school that was once promoted as a tourist attraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBack Space\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gathering of reviews, your letters, news and notes, and a new feature, Our Back Pages, which mines the archives \u003cem\u003eof Minnesota History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBook Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaconite Dreams: The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota’s Iron Range, 1915--2000\u003cbr\u003eFolksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946\u003cbr\u003eMétis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLetters \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNews \u0026amp; Notes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Back Pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbout the cover… \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIWW sympathizers Joe Orlandich, Milica Masonovich, Philip Masonovich, and Joe Nickich, possibly during the 1916 Mesabi Strike. Learn about the role played by Milica and other “Rebel Girls,” in the article beginning on p. 90. Photo courtesy Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVisit Minnesota History at: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mnhs.org\/mnhistory\"\u003ewww.mnhs.org\/mnhistory\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MNHS PRESS OFFICES","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41284399661236,"sku":"16325","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0260\/6261\/8702\/products\/c65i03f.jpg?v=1645992655","url":"https:\/\/mnhs-shop-test.myshopify.com\/products\/minnesota-history-quarterly-fall-2016-65-3","provider":"mnhs_shop_test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}