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Student Activist

Clip: 6/20/1991 | 6m 45sVideo has Closed Captions

His participation in community organizations and being President of the U of M's...

His participation in community organizations and being President of the U of M's Marxist Socialist Club has the House Un-American Activities after him. Tilsen isn't sure what brought them to him. He work consisted of helping the Minnesota 8 and working with the Black community. But he kept his cool and eventually left his law firm to start up his own.

06/20/1991

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His Families Beliefs

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Clip: 6/20/1991 | 2m 43s | Tilsen's family immigrated to the U.S. from Russia and came looking for opportunity... (2m 43s)

Proud of His Work

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Clip: 6/20/1991 | 6m 47s | Tilsen was happy to own his own law firm and he began taking hundreds and hundreds of... (6m 47s)

Spiritual Feeling

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Clip: 6/20/1991 | 9m 1s | During his work for Wounded Knee defense, Tilsen felt emotional and a spiritual... (9m 1s)

Wounded Knee

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Clip: 6/20/1991 | 2m 21s | Taking charge, Tilsen helped get 70 people released from jail in two days. This was... (2m 21s)

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