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Mother’s Day March for Peace and Justice

On Mother’s Day, 1986, over 1,000 people participated in Minneapolis’s sixth annual Mother’s Day March for Peace and Justice. The group gathered at the Native American Indian Center at Franklin and Bloomington Avenues and marched to Powderhorn Park in the wet and rain. The group was marching against nuclear testing, U.S. military intervention throughout the world and racism, and advocating for women’s reproductive rights.

Photos by Wendy BellforThe Surveyor, from the Minneapolis Community Newspaper Photographs Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. Individuals in the photographs are not identified. Recognize someone in these photographs? Let us know!