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Rural Minnesota Concentrated Employment Program [CEP] was established in 1968 as a private, non-profit corporation for the purpose of providing training and employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged/unemployed people in northwestern Minnesota. The CEP's area of operation currently incorporates 19 counties - Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Crow Wing, Douglas, Grant, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Morrison, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens, Todd, Traverse, Wadena, and Wilkin.

This bibliography includes the family history books located in the Heritage Education Commission collection held at the Northwest Minnesota Historical Center. If a date is given in parenthesis, this indicates the publication received an award in the stated year. The collection number of each volume is given at the end of the entry.

Life long resident of the Glyndon, Minnesota area, Keith Langseth and his wife Lorraine operate a dairy farm in Elkton Township between Glyndon and Barnesville. Langseth, who had served as Clay County DFL Chairman, was elected to the Minnesota State Legislative in 1974 when he unseated Arlan Stangeland. He continued to serve District 9B until 1978 when he failed in his re-election by eleven voters, one of the closest races in the state of Minnesota.

This collection contains old photographs, newspaper articles, newspapers, books, pamphlets and broadsides pertaining to the history of Minnesota, the Red River Valley and individual communities in northwest Minnesota.

The heart of the RRVSGA collection is the transcripts of interviews conducted with several dozen individuals involved in the sugarbeet industry in the Valley. Most of those interviewed are members of the RRVSGA, although former employees of the old American Crystal Company, some migrant laborers, and a few elected officials were also interviewed. Each interview transcription is fully described in the inventory. In addition to the transcript, a tape of the interview is also available.

Minnesota State Moorhead doctorate programs are offered on campus and online degree in Doctor of Education (EdD).