Schools ⋆ Minneapolis Interview Project: A Hennepin History Museum Archive

Schools includes Pre-k, K-12 schools, and Higher Education, teachers, students, and Professors, campaigns for equity in the schools, the Minneapolis School Board, and area colleges including, Macalester, Hamline, Augsburg, St. Olaf, St. Cloud State University, Metropolitan State University, and the University of Minnesota.

Ruth Voights

Collaborating to Center Native American Women

John Samuel Wright

4th Generation Minnesotan Recalls 150 years of Resistance to Jim Crow North

Gilberto Vázquez Valle (1958-2021)

Radio Host Built Solidarity Through Encuentro with Latin American Folk Music

Sandy Berman

The Making of a Radical Librarian

Cathy Jones

Postal Worker Fights Police Brutality, Discrimination in the Workplace

Ronald Judy

Rich Complexity of the Historic, South Minneapolis Black Community

Tom O’Connell

Our Minneapolis Revolution: 1930s, 1970s, & Today.

Drew Edwards

6th Grade Teacher Struggled in School. He Pushes and Turns the Stone in North Minneapolis

Henry Jimenez

Son of Undocumented Immigrants with Las Vegas Roots, Advocates for Latinx Minnesota

Margo Hurrle

Advocate for MPS Students, on Policies to End Child Homelessness

Charmaine Bell

Educator & Family Advocate Uses Multiple Consciousnesses to Envision Structural Change

Brenna Dep

Youth Worker Learns Liberating Power of a Poem

Susana De Leon

From Torreón to Minneapolis: Immigration Attorney and Kalpulli Ketzal Coatlicue Dancer

Hye-Kyong Kim

Korean Adoptee's Asian Identity Journey, Leads to Career as Trauma Healer

Jimmy Patiño Jr.

Scholar Activist uses Insider/Outsider Strategy to Build Chicano & Latino Studies

Bruce Drewlow

Northern Minnesota to North Minneapolis; the Education of an Educator.

R. Vincent Moniz Jr.

Indigenous Poet on Growing Up "Urban Indian" in Phillips Neighborhood.

Robin Wonsley

Radical Transformation of an Organizer from Chicago's Southside

Mustafa Diriye

Somali Immigrant Found What Makes Home: Colleges, Coffee Shops and a Mosque

Philli Irvin (Steven Johnson)

How He Got to Now: The Creative Influences of a North Minneapolis Community Artist

Elizabeth Faue

Feminist Labor Historian Returns to North Minneapolis Roots

August Nimtz

From Jim Crow New Orleans to Professor in Mpls: The Making of a Black Communist

Kenneth Holt

For This Educator Black Lives Matter Is Not a Movement; It’s His Life

Sandy Hernandez

Growing Up Undocumented in Minneapolis

April Knutson

Former Leader of MN CP Continues to Build United Fronts

David Tilsen

Minneapolis Activist Continues Generations of Progressive Leadership

Mel Reeves (1957-2022)

Long-Time Organizer Against Police Brutality, Fights the Power

Rose Brewer

From Tulsa to Minneapolis: Activist Scholar is Rooted in Community

Tina Burnside

Civil Civil Rights Attorney & Museum Curator Harvests the Stories Community Needs

Connie Edberg

Native American Educator Refuses to be Objectified or Typecast

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez

Chicano Reporter from LA, Centers Marginalized Workers

Lisa Albrecht

Lesbian Feminist Educator Still Learning, To Repair the World

Daniel Alberto Perez

For School Social Worker; Labor, & Immigrant Rights Organizer, Three North American Nations are Home

Louise Sundin

Minneapolis Teachers' Union Organizer, on 50 years of Labor Leadership

Rachel Schmitt

Educator Rooted in Love and Solidarity

Minerva Munoz

Makes Space in College For Working-Class People Like Her.

Jason Sole at Hamline University, January 23, 2020

Jason Sole

Formerly Incarcerated Professor Makes Sacred Trouble

Artika Tyner

Law Professor, Community Justice Advocate, and Children's Author/Publisher with a Pan-African Lens

Michael McConnell

Married His Husband in 1971, Demands Equality for All.

Adriana Cerrillo

Elevates Immigrant Voices to Change Racist Policies