Nellie Stone Johnson was an African American union and civil rights leader whose career spanned the class-conscious politics of the 1930s and the liberal reforms of the Minnesota DFL Party. She was the first African-American elected official in Minneapolis and shaped Minnesota politics for 70 years. Nellie Saunders Allen was born in 1905 to Dakota County farmers […]
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