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Julia Nelson

Title: Photograph of Julia Nelson
Type: Photograph
Date: 1903
Source: Minnesota Historical Society

Description: Nelson was a Red Wing resident and activist for women's suffrage. She worked in the South as a teacher of freed slaves after the Civil War, and delivered speeches about suffrage, education, and other issues. She had this photograph taken with a copy of the Minnesota White Ribbon in 1903.

Julia Nelson