Arc records. 1946-2007.

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Arc records. 1946-2007.

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Records documenting the first sixty years of one of thenation's first advocacy groups for the mentally retarded and developmentallydisabled. The collection includes board of directors' documents, financial records,biographical files, publications, subject files, speeches, news clippings, motionpictures and videorecordings, and scrapbooks and photograph albums.

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Wellstone, Paul David, 1944-2002

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Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002) was an American academic, author, and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until his death. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota, Wellstone was a leader of the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party. Born in Washington, D.C., Wellstone attended high school in Arlington, Virginia, graduating from Yorktown High School. He then graduated from the University of North Caro...

Association of Retarded Citizens of Hennepin County (Minn.)

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Minneapolis Association for Retarded Citizens

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Minneapolis Association for Retarded Children

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Rolvaag, Karl F., 1913-1990

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Rolvaag was born in 1913 in Northfield, Minn., the son of author Ole E. Rolvaag. He was chairman of the state Democratic Farmer Labor Party (1950-1954), Minnesota lieutenant governor (1955-1962), Minnesota governor (1963-1967), U.S. ambassador to Iceland (1967-1969). From the description of Oral history interview with Karl F. Rolvaag, December 1978. (Minnesota Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 45441444 Karl Fritjof Rolvaag was born July 18, 1913, in Northfield...

Omodt, Donald J.

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National Association for Retarded Citizens

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Arc Greater Twin Cities.

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Arc Greater Twin Cities is an advocacy agency for the developmentally disabled that traces its history back to 1946. At a holiday party at the Hammer School in Minneapolis, one of the few schools at the time that accepted children with mental retardation, parents organized a group and elected Reuben Lindh chairman. Calling themselves the Association of Friends of the Mentally Retarded, they hoped to arouse public interest in reforms for the care of and educational standards for the ...

Walsh, Gerald F.

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Adams, Cedric

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Association of Friends of the Mentally Retarded.

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Holahan, John L.

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Arc of Hennepin County (Organization)

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Youngdahl, Luther W., 1896-1978

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Luther Wallace Youngdahl was born in Minneapolis on May 29, 1896, the son of John Carl and Elizabeth (Johnson) Youngdahl. He was educated in the Minneapolis Public Schools, attended the University of Minnesota for a year and then transferred to Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota. After service in World War I, he returned to Gustavus Adolphus and was graduated from there in 1919. He began his law studies at the Minnesota College of Law (later William Mitchell College of ...