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MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds a fun exploration of wide-ranging topics including sports, politics, environment, business, entertainment, pop culture, and more.
MN90 is fun exploration of wide-ranging topics including sports, politics, environment, business, entertainment, pop culture, and more.

MN90: Roy Wilkins, the Civil Rights Act and LBJ

Roy Wilkins earned his professional chops as a Twin Cities journalist. But it was as an activist and director of the NAACP, says producer Britt Aamodt, that Wilkins helped change history with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

MN90: Magnus Johnson: No Yokel and No Man’s Echo

Before the days of wrestlers and comedians in Minnesota politics, one politician named Magnus Johnson captured the state’s attention. He was America’s first Swedish-born Senator, with a bombastic personality like no other. Producer Sam Radwany reports.

MN90: Hormel Meat Packers Strike of 1985

In the summer of 1985, hundreds of workers walked off their jobs at a Hormel food packing plant in Austin when the company cut workers’ hourly wage and benefits. As producer Sam Radwany reports, the strike tested the union’s limits, and put the community on a national stage.

MN90: Spanish Flu

The Spanish Flu descended on Minnesota in 1918, at a time when the world had no effective answer to major pandemics. The state’s disjointed response had mixed results, but helped future health workers decide how to prepare for infectious outbreaks. Produced for Ampers by Art Hughes.

MN90: Owen Wangensteen

Owen Wangensteen pioneered a new technique of gastrointestinal surgery that helped reduce the mortality rate of thousands of patients. Producer Allison Herrera tells us how.

MN90: Pig’s Eye

Minnesota capitol city St. Paul was almost named Pigs Eye, after the colorful character and bootlegger known as Pierre Parrant. Producer Allison Herrera tells us more about his life.

MN90: When Hollywood Came to Minnesota

Movie theatre goers in the 1920’s enjoyed world class cinema thanks to the efforts of businessmen Moses Finkelstein and Isaac Ruben. Producer Allison Herrera tells us about their epic picture palaces.

MN90: Center for Victims of Torture

Many people who live through the tragedy of war are victims of torture…seeking asylum from volatile conditions in their home country. They immigrate to the United States haunted by the experience. One organization in Minnesota sought to heal those wounds. Produced for Ampers by Allison Herrera.

MN90: The March King, the Businessman, and the Bounced Check

Minneapolis has its very own John Philip Sousa composition, orchestrated by the maestro in 1929. But a bounced check shelved the march for over half a century. Britt Aamodt has more.

MN90: The Cereal Shot From Guns

Everybody would like to have the kind of accident botanist Alexander Anderson had at the turn of the 20th century. He went looking for starch granules and discovered breakfast cereal with a bang. Britt Aamodt gets the scoop.

MN90: Orphan Train

Most Minnesotans know our state’s diverse history with immigrants. Recently they’ve come from Somalia and Liberia, and Scandinavia before that. But some of the earliest immigrants to the land of ten thousand lakes came from a place that wasn’t all that foreign. Producer Sam Radwany has the story.

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