Gold Star Mothers in Minnesota
Bibliography
American Gold Star Mothers Record Collection
Institutional Records, American Gold Star Mothers National Office, Washington D.C.
Description: The collection contains records documenting the creation and development of the American Gold Star Mothers, including the group’s the Minnesota chapter.
American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. History.
http://www.goldstarmoms.com/About/History.htm
American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. Minnesota Chapter, About Us.
http://www.mngoldstarmoms.com/mngsmAboutUs.html
American Gold Star Mothers, Inc.: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, on H.R. 3811, March 21, 1984. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pur1.32754078045857;view=1up;seq=1
Dayton, Mark. State of Minnesota Gold Star Mother’s Day Proclamation. The Office of the Governor of Minnesota, September 20, 2014.
Fenelon, Holly S. American Gold Star Mothers: A History, 1928–2010. Doylestown, PA: Winans Kuenstler Publishing, 2010.
Gene Skiba Collection
New Brighton Area Historical Society, New Brighton
http://www.newbrightonhistory.com/gold-star-mother/
Description: Documents from Lizzie Schafman, a Gold Star Mother, whose son, Walter Schafman, died in World War I, including images and documents from her 1930 pilgrimage to visit Walter’s grave.
Haga, Chuck. “Gold Star Mothers still care, still cry.” Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 2, 1991.
Hennepin County War Records Committee. World War Gold Star Roll of Hennepin County: Program and Exercises for the Dedication of Memorial Trees on the Victory Memorial Driveway. Minneapolis: Satterlee Printing, 1921.
Kreiser, Christine M. “Gold Star Mother.” American History 47, no. 4 (October 2012): 19.
Plant, Rebecca Jo, and Frances M. Clarke. “‘The Crowning Insult’: Federal Segregation and the Gold Star Mother and Widow Pilgrimages of the Early 1930s.” Journal of American History 102, no. 2 (September 2015): 406–432.
United States War Department. List of Mothers and Widows of American Soldiers and Marines Entitled to make a Pilgrimage to the War Cemeteries in Europe. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1930.
Chronology
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1917
1918
1921
1928
1929
1930
1930
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1949
1978
1991
2009
2014
Bibliography
American Gold Star Mothers Record Collection
Institutional Records, American Gold Star Mothers National Office, Washington D.C.
Description: The collection contains records documenting the creation and development of the American Gold Star Mothers, including the group’s the Minnesota chapter.
American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. History.
http://www.goldstarmoms.com/About/History.htm
American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. Minnesota Chapter, About Us.
http://www.mngoldstarmoms.com/mngsmAboutUs.html
American Gold Star Mothers, Inc.: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, on H.R. 3811, March 21, 1984. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pur1.32754078045857;view=1up;seq=1
Dayton, Mark. State of Minnesota Gold Star Mother’s Day Proclamation. The Office of the Governor of Minnesota, September 20, 2014.
Fenelon, Holly S. American Gold Star Mothers: A History, 1928–2010. Doylestown, PA: Winans Kuenstler Publishing, 2010.
Gene Skiba Collection
New Brighton Area Historical Society, New Brighton
http://www.newbrightonhistory.com/gold-star-mother/
Description: Documents from Lizzie Schafman, a Gold Star Mother, whose son, Walter Schafman, died in World War I, including images and documents from her 1930 pilgrimage to visit Walter’s grave.
Haga, Chuck. “Gold Star Mothers still care, still cry.” Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 2, 1991.
Hennepin County War Records Committee. World War Gold Star Roll of Hennepin County: Program and Exercises for the Dedication of Memorial Trees on the Victory Memorial Driveway. Minneapolis: Satterlee Printing, 1921.
Kreiser, Christine M. “Gold Star Mother.” American History 47, no. 4 (October 2012): 19.
Plant, Rebecca Jo, and Frances M. Clarke. “‘The Crowning Insult’: Federal Segregation and the Gold Star Mother and Widow Pilgrimages of the Early 1930s.” Journal of American History 102, no. 2 (September 2015): 406–432.
United States War Department. List of Mothers and Widows of American Soldiers and Marines Entitled to make a Pilgrimage to the War Cemeteries in Europe. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1930.