General correspondence, September 26, 2000, to October 30, 2001

File — Box: 1, Folder: 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: A group of concerned citizens originating with the Fargo-Moorhead Human Rights Commission believed that the entire state of North Dakota should come under the care of a similar organization. They organized themselves to contact other concerned people in the state, and to develop information for their own further education in this area, and the education of citizens around the state. Much of their work was in making known to state legislators and administrative people why this project needs to go forward. They wished to change the legislature’s mind about leaving the subject with the North Dakota Labor Commissioner in favor of establishing a separate commission for the sole purpose of the protection of human rights. Some of the material involves correspondence and live discussions with the Labor Commissioner in which each side expressed its views and concerns. The North Dakota Human Rights Coalition records contains the series of meeting minutes from March 22, 2000, through May 9, 2002, a series of e-mail correspondence from August 2000 through July 2001, and a correspondence series, divided into general correspondence and two important sub-series: discussions with North Dakota Labor Commissioner Mark Bachmeier, and correspondence and documents relating to the successful request for a grant from the Bremer Foundation. There follows a series of newspaper articles and a legislative activities series concerning legislative contacts, bill drafts, and house and senate bills. Finally, there is a subject file series of significant individual topic documents.