In this interview, Marvin Jacobson gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and World War II veteran. He was born in Duluth, 1926, and recalls that he was raised in St. Paul by Zionist parents. Jacobson tells the story of how he graduated at age sixteen and entered military employment as a civilian. He continues to explain that at age...
Creator:
Jacobson, Marvin, 1926-
Contributor:
Savin, Laura (Interviewer)
Created:
2006-02-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Mary C. Turner is an ICU Nurse in the COVID unit of North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, the President of the Minnesota Nurses Association, and the only RN appointed to President Biden's COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. In this oral history interview, she discusses her initial thoughts on the pandemic as an ICU nurse, HIV/AIDS an...
Creator:
Turner, Mary C (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-08-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Mary Fox shares her experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. This interview was conducted six days prior to the 2020 presidential election, so she describes her early voting process and how voting was different this year from other years due to the pandemic. She talks about her preferred news outlets and her concern about ...
Creator:
Fox, Mary
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A successful writer of children's stories and poetry, Mary O'Neill, talks about her decision to join the Peace Corps. Ms. O'Neill works in Ghana where she teaches English.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Radio Station KUOM; University of Minnesota. Audio Visual Library Services
Contributor:
O'Neil, Mary
Created:
1972
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Masen Davis is a white trans man, political organizer, and nonprofit executive based in Berlin. At the time of this interview, he was the Executive Director of Transgender Europe (TGEU,) a network of European trans advocacy and activist organizations. Prior to his work with TGEU, he was the Executive Director of the advocacy and lobbying group F...
In this interview, Maurice Lazarus gives a history of Brochin's store in North Side, which was a general store that sold Jewish artifacts and food, but it also sold tickets that helped Jewish people bring their families to the United States. He explains how it moved to St. Louis Park. Near the end of the interview, he explains the importance of ...
Creator:
Lazarus, Maurice, (1947 - )
Contributor:
Norman, Jeff (Interviewer)
Created:
2012-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Max Gries is a white genderqueer person from Wisconsin. At the time of this oral history, Gries was working at Capella University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this oral history, Gries reflects upon exploring their sexuality in college, moving to Minneapolis in the mid-1990s, becoming involved with bisexual organizing, attending Michigan Womyn's...
Creator:
Gries, Max
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
In this interview, Maxine Goldenberg gives an account of some of the Jewish community initiatives taking place in the mid-20th century. She explains that she was on the board of the United Jewish Fund (St. Paul) in the 1950s and also the campaign chairman. Goldenberg mentions additionally that she served in several organizations in Duluth, which...
Creator:
Goldenberg, Maxine
Contributor:
Schloff, Linda (Interviewer)
Created:
1984-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Maxwell Poessnecker is a white trans masculine person raised in Nebraska who goes by he and sometimes they. At the time of this interview, Poessnecker was working as the Associate Director of Student Life and Director of LGBTQ Services at Century College. In this oral history, Poessnecker speaks at length about masculinity, his family relationsh...
Creator:
Poessnecker, Maxwell
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-07-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Interview 28 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with Meadow (Meadowlark ) Muska, a photographer and activist. She was among the women who gathered at the Lesbian Resource Center in the early 1970’s. She photographed lesbian life in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Eugene, Oregon, and on cooperative women-owned...
Creator:
Muska, Meadow (Meadowlark)
Contributor:
Vecoli, Lisa
Created:
2023-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
In this interview, Mel Burnstein gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and legal practitioner. He was born in 1933 and raised in St. Paul by Russian Jewish parents. He discusses some family history related to Russia and St. Paul, growing up in St. Paul in Highland Park, and some details about the West Side of St. Paul. He started i...
Creator:
Burnstein, Mel, 1933-?
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:
2008-01-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Melinda Lee is a Cambodian-American, Vietnamese-American, and Chinese-American gender non-conforming, non-binary person from Long Beach, California. At the time of this oral history interview, they were the Assistant Director of the Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life at the University of Minnesota. In the interview, Lee discuss...
Creator:
Lee, Melinda
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-08-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Melissa Harl is a white female with transgender experience and history who grew up in Wisconsin. At the time of this interview, Harl was working as a Professor at the University of Minnesota. In this oral history Harl talks about her childhood, bullying, and coming out in her late fifties. She also talk about her relationship with her late wife,...
Creator:
Harl, Melissa
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Melissa Plucinak shares her experiences of life as a new mother during the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls that she gave birth to her daughter the same week she started hearing about the prevalence of COVID-19 in the United States. She tells how she “felt pretty robbed” of the excitement of having her first child and sharing the experience with e...
Creator:
Plucinak, Melissa
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-09-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this interview, Mel Orenstein gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and legal practitioner. He was born in 1926 on the North Side of Minneapolis and moved to the Selby-Dale neighborhood of St. Paul in 1938. He recalls that his father was from Russia and homesteaded in North Dakota. Orenstein gives additional family background, i...
Creator:
Orenstein, Mel, 1926-?
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:
2009-01-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Meredith Vezina is a white trans woman who was born in Berlin, NH and grew up in Long Island is based, at the time of this interview, in San Diego, CA. In this oral history she describes coming to terms with her gender identity in the 1960s and 1970s as well as her experiences with medical transition in that era, specifically at the gender clini...
Creator:
Vezina, Meredith
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Merrick Moses is a mixed Black and Latino trans man from Queens, New York. At the time of this interview, Moses was living in Maryland. In this oral history, Moses speaks about his relationship with politics, equity, his childhood, the issues with single story, and transitioning into Black masculinity. Moses also talks about medical transition, ...
Creator:
Moses, Merrick
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-01-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Micah King is a Black trans man from Minnesota. At the time of this interview he was working at a SuperAmerica located in Minnesota. In this oral history he talks extensively about mental health, an organization called Reclaim, and his family relationships. He also touches upon a youth shelter and housing program called Brown Booth House, his po...
Creator:
King, Micah
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-12-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ethnicity and Children's Literature. This interview, or rather panel discussion, begins by Mr. Novak talking about the subject of subconscious learning in children and how that affects the child's opinions later in life, as well as various patterns and cues that can emerge from this subconscious learning as well. Children develop different types...
Creator:
Novak, Michael
Created:
1979-02-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Micky Bradford is a Black queer non-binary trans woman based in Atlanta who co-founded and organized the Southern Fried Queer Pride Festival. At the time of this interview, she was an organizer with Southerners on New Ground and the Transgender Law Center. ln this oral history, Bradford discusses the important of art in culture change, her exper...
Creator:
Bradford, Micky
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Mike Scholtz discusses some of the ways that COVID-19 has affected his life. He shares that much of his work life hasn’t changed significantly because he has been able to continue the video editing part of his work from home. He says he has been working on old projects and has also been fortunate to get some new work since the pandemic began. He...
Creator:
Scholtz, Mike
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-07-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mildred Margaret (Friedeborg) Anderson, former editor of Common Ground interview by William Beyer, 2 July 1977 at her home on Lighthouse Point, Mayville, New York. The theme at the beginning of this interview between Margaret Anderson and William Beyer was that of Common Ground, a literary magazine that Ms. Anderson was editor of for a number of...
Creator:
Anderson, Mildred Margaret
Contributor:
Beyer, William (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-07-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Mildred Margaret (Friedeborg) Anderson, former editor of Common Ground interview by William Beyer, 2 July 1977 at her home on Lighthouse Point, Mayville, New York
Creator:
Anderson, Mildred Margaret
Contributor:
Beyer, William (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-07-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Mildred Magaret (Friedeborg) Anderson, former editor of Common Ground. Remarks concerning authors associated with Common Ground. Comments in response to a letter from William Beyer, then a graduate student, University of Minnesota
Creator:
Anderson, Mildred Margaret
Created:
1976-06-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Mildred Magaret (Friedeborg) Anderson, former editor of Common Ground. Autobiographical remarks. Comments in response to a letter from William Beyer, then a graduate student, University of Minnesota
Creator:
Anderson, Mildred Margaret
Created:
1976-06-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Millie Richard, a Native American elder living in the Central Hillside neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota, describes how her life has changed under COVID-19. She mentions that she spends a lot of time in her yard and garden, and since she is outside, she considers it a safe place for her to be and to sometimes meet with others. She said that as a...
Creator:
Richard, Millie
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-07-24
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Ms. Ephraim begins by going over a bit of background history about herself and her involvement in education and, more specifically, Jewish education. She talks about her position at the Central Jewish Institute where she was the director of extension education. She engaged in this education through various forms of art such as music, providing a...
Creator:
Ephraim, Miriam
Created:
1975-07-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Miriam Kloss describes her life as a high school senior at Duluth East High School in Duluth during the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares stories about how her schooling had to convert to online learning very quickly with short notice, and the struggles of attempting to learn complex subjects like physics and calculus while working at home away from...
Creator:
Kloss, Miriam
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-08-19
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mitra Emad, who is currently on sabbatical from her job as professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, speaks in-depth and at length about the intersection of science and popular culture during this pandemic, while exploring the implications of the internet as a source of news and information. She mentions some of the scientific and epidemi...
Creator:
Emad, Mitra
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-08-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Moe is a white trans man raised in California. At the time of this interview, Moe was working as a Registered Nurse. In this oral history, Moe speaks at length about shifts in language about identity through time, hospice work, love as a practice, encounters with healthcare (insurance), and his family relationships. He also touches upon Sufism, ...
Creator:
Moe
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-11-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Moira Villiard discusses her experiences as an artist and active community organizer in Duluth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the summer of 2020. She describes leading a community-engaged mural art project at the Clayton Jackson McGhie memorial after the death of George Floyd, partly in response to some graffiti on the memorial. She felt it wa...
Creator:
Villiard, Moira
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-07-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Monet (Kisha) Martin is a Black trans woman from Minnesota, Connecticut, and New York. At the time of this interview, Martin was living in New York. In this oral history she talks about her familial relationships, money, her encounters with law enforcement, sex work, and her experiences living and working in New York. She also touches upon drag,...
Creator:
Martin, Monet (Kisha)
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-05-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Monica Joy Cross is a Black trans woman raised in California. At the time of this oral history, Cross was the Pastor at First Christian Church of Oakland and an Associate Pastor at Tapestry Ministries in Berkeley. In this oral history, she speaks at length about growing up in Los Angeles, her spirituality and faith, coming out, the impact of the...
Creator:
Cross, Monica
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
At the time of this interview, Dr. Monica Yugu was a case manager and HIV counselor in the Infectious Diseases department at Minnesota Children's Hospital. Prior to her work at Children's, Dr. Yugu was employed with the Hennepin County Medical Center's Positive Care Center. She was previously was involved in HIV/AIDS community health work within...
Creator:
Yugu, Monica
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2016-04-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
