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In 1995 she got a honorary doctoral degree from St. Cloud State University. She continued to support the movement she believed in, the year she later passed away in 2002 April 2nd.

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According to my source, Nellie Stone Johnson was one of the first African American women to sit contract-negotiating committee.

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In 1950, the Athletic club fired her for organizing while on the job, after that she started her own business which was called Nellies Zipper and Shirt repair shop. For

over 30 years she owned a shop in downtown Minneapolis, and she was still supporting labor causes. Throughout her career in the 1940’s  She got into labor politics as the civil rights movement.

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Nellie stone Johnson was an African American leader who was involved in labor politics she was a young girl growing up on a farm and she was raised on an farm.

Her main goal was to get into labor politics as she got older, she became a resident of Minneapolis

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she was raised on a farm with her six siblings her father was a member of the Non- Partisan league her mother and grandmother were teachers with an interest in political philosophy, She graduated from Hinckley high school and left home a 17 to finish high school

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She started working for the Minneapolis Athletic Club, she also helped found Local 665 of the hotel and restaurant, In the late 1930’s she was one of the most best forces in civil rights and labor politics movement in Minnesota.