Amina was born in Somalia and came to Kenya as a refugee in 2005. She met and married her husband in Kenya. On July 23, 2013, she came to the United States. She lived in Boston for two months and then moving to Minnesota. She works and attends English as a Second Language classes. She had her husband have four children.
Creator:
Shire, Amina
Created:
2014-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Amilyn grew up in the province of Abuyog Leyte, Phillipines with her parents and sibligns. She met her husband, an American, in the Phillipines. Amilyn came to the United STates in March 2006 to be with her hsuband. They live in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Creator:
Theisen, Amilyn
Created:
2015-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Clarence ("Cap") Wigington (1883-1967) was the first African-American registered architect to practice for any substantial length of time in Minnesota. In 1915, one year after moving to St. Paul, Wigington took a qualifying exam as a senior draftsman and became the first African American municipal architect in the United States. He had the highe...
Creator:
Wigington, Clarence Wesley, 1883-1967
Contributor:
Tewes, Frank X.
Created:
1928-09-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives.
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Program Opens: "The Minnesota School of the Air presents..." Program Closes: "... presentation of the Minnesota School of the Air." Theme Out. The stories of Mark Twain are well known to most readers, but the man less so. This book is a biography of what the author considers most interesting to young people about this great Am...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Radio Station KUOM
Created:
1972-03-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Ukrainian, Russian, and African American exhibits at the festival "America's Making," Stamford, Connecticut. The exhibit label "Negro" is a presentation of the African American community with a particular focus on the Tuskegee Institute.
Creator:
Dayton Snyder, Stamford, Conn.
Created:
1931-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
This video, produced in 2001 for broadcast by The History Channel, outlines the first 150 years of the YMCA's history in the United States.
Part 1: Introductions and Origins;
Part 2 Sports and Fitness; the invention of basketball and volleyball;
Part 3: The YMCA's war work;
Part 4: The YMCA and the Civil Rights movement;
Part 5: Village Peo...
Contributor:
Weiner, Candice (Writer, Producer); Kurtis, Bill (Narrator); Towers Productions, Inc.
Created:
2001
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Documentary celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of the first YMCA in America. It chronicles the organization's transformation from an evangelical group of young, urban, Protestant men to a broad-based secular, community organization serving men, women and children across all religious and social lines. It features interviews with f...
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.