Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. A U.S. senator from Minnesota from 1964 to 1976,he was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1984 presidential election,but lost to incumbent Ronald Reagan in an Electoral College and popular vote landslide.
Ralph David Abernathy Sr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. As a leader of the civil rights movement,he was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated with King and E. D. Nixon to create the Montgomery Improvement Association,which led to the Montgomery bus boycott,and co-created and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He became president of the SCLC following the assassination of King in 1968;he led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington,D.C.,as well as other marches and demonstrations for disenfranchised Americans. He also served as an advisory committee member of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE).
Rudolph Ely “Rudy”Boschwitz is an American politician and businessman who served as a United States senator from Minnesota from 1978 until 1991. Boschwitz is a member of the Republican Party.
Frank Billings Kellogg was an American lawyer,politician,and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg–Briand Pact,for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929.
Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist was an American attorney and Republican politician in Minnesota. He served in the Minnesota State Legislature from 1909 to 1911,was elected the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota in 1912,and then served as the 19th Governor of Minnesota from December 30,1915,to January 5,1921. He became governor after the death of Governor Winfield Scott Hammond (1863–1915).
Arthur Joseph Goldberg was an American statesman and jurist who served as the 9th U.S. Secretary of Labor,an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,and the 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
Hiram "Harry" Bingham IV was an American diplomat. He served as a Vice Consul in Marseilles,France,during World War II,and,along with Varian Fry,helped more than 2,500 Jews to escape from France as Nazi forces advanced.
Ludwig Lewisohn was a novelist,literary critic,the drama critic for The Nation and then its associate editor. He was the editor of the New Palestine,an American Zionist journal. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Ohio State University as well as serving as professor of German and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. Lewisohn produced some 40 full-length fiction and non-fiction books,nearly as many translations,wrote numerous magazine and journal articles and edited countless other written works.
Jacob Billikopf,Ph.B.,L.L.D.,was a nationally known figure in social work,Jewish philanthropy and labor arbitration. Billikopf had a long and distinguished career in public service work. He served as superintendent of the United Jewish Charities in Milwaukee,Wisconsin and Kansas City,Missouri,before becoming the executive director of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,chairman of the National Labor Board for the Philadelphia region during the first years of the New Deal.
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters (AMC),officially the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America,1897–1979,was a labor union that represented retail and packinghouse workers. In 1979,the AMCBW merged with the Retail Clerks International Union to form the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
The United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA),later the United Packinghouse,Food and Allied Workers,was a labor union that represented workers in the meatpacking industry.
Louis Marshall was an American corporate,constitutional and civil rights lawyer as well as a mediator and Jewish community leader who worked to secure religious,political,and cultural freedom for all minority groups. Among the founders of the American Jewish Committee (AJC),he defended Jewish and minority rights. He was also a conservationist,and the force behind re-establishing the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University,which evolved into today's State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
Cheri Register was an American author and teacher. She wrote seven books and co-authored three,the most famous of which,Packinghouse Daughter,is a memoir based on her working-class upbringing in her hometown of Albert Lea,Minnesota. She was a two-time Minnesota Book Awards winner. Register earned a Ph.D. from University of Chicago where she also received her B.A. and M.A. degrees.
Keith Maurice Ellison is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 30th attorney general of Minnesota. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),Ellison was the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district from 2007 to 2019. He also served as the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2017 to 2018 and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007. In Congress,Ellison built a reputation as a progressive leader.
On August 10,1999,at around 10:50 a.m. PT,American white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr. walked into the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills and opened fire with an Uzi sub machine gun,firing 70 bullets into the complex. The gunfire wounded five people:three children,a teenage counselor,and an office worker. Shortly thereafter,Furrow murdered a mail carrier,fled the state,and finally surrendered to authorities.
The history of the Jews in Omaha,Nebraska,goes back to the mid-1850s.
The family of Barack Obama,the 44th president of the United States,is a prominent American family active in law,education,activism and politics. Obama's immediate family circle was the first family of the United States from 2009 to 2017,and are the first such family of African-American descent. His immediate family includes his wife Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha.
Floyd Bjørnstjerne "Skipper" Olson was an American politician and lawyer. A three-term governor,he served as the 22nd Governor of Minnesota from January 6,1931,to August 22,1936,when he died in office. Olson was a member of the Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party,and the first member of that party to win the office of governor. He was a prominent governor of Minnesota and an influential American politician.
Zev Aelony was an American activist involved in the Civil Rights Movement. He was an organizer of the civil rights student group Students for Integration,a CORE Soul Force Member,a Freedom Rider,and one of the Americus Four who faced a death penalty for helping citizens legally vote.
Clifford C. Sommer was an American businessman and politician.
