Members invited to attend Nellie Stone Johnson Scholarship Dinner

MAPE is sponsoring two tables at the Nellie Stone Johnson Scholarship Dinner on April 16, at the Doubletree Hilton in Bloomington and we want MAPE members there in support! The dinner honors student scholarship recipients and the legacy of the inspirational civil rights activist and union organizer Nellie Stone Johnson.

Johnson had a decades-long record of public service in support of the advancement of people of color, the rights of workers and equal opportunities for all people. As a leader of organized labor in the 1930s and 1940s, she was the first woman vice president of the Minnesota Culinary Council and the first woman vice president of Local 665 Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union. She was also the first Black person elected to citywide office in Minneapolis when she won a seat on the Library Board in 1945.

The scholarship program provides scholarships of up to $2,500 to union members or children, grandchildren, or spouses of union members who are racial/ethnic group members (defined by the Minnesota State Diversity and Multiculturalism Office to include Black/African American, Chicano/a or Latino/a, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Native American/Alaskan Native) and are currently enrolled in or accepted into a program at a Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (Minnesota State) institution.

If you are interested in attending the dinner, please fill out this brief application by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18.