Editing Paul Wellstone (section)

==Early career and activism==
In August 1969, Wellstone accepted a [[tenure-track]] position at [[Carleton College]] in [[Northfield, Minnesota|Northfield]], [[Minnesota]], where he taught political science until his election to the Senate in 1990.<ref name="startribune.com"/> During the 1970s and 1980s, he also began [[community organizing]], working with the working poor and other politically disenfranchised communities. He founded the Organization for a Better Rice County, a group consisting mainly of single parents on [[Aid to Families with Dependent Children|welfare]]. The organization advocated for [[public housing]], affordable [[health care]], improved [[public education]], free [[school lunches]], and a publicly funded [[day care center]]. In 1978, he published his first book, ''How the Rural Poor Got Power: Narrative of a Grassroots Organizer'', chronicling his work with the organization.<ref name="startribune.com"/>

Wellstone was arrested twice during this period for [[civil disobedience]].<ref name="minnesota.publicradio.org">{{Cite web|url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2010/wellstone-files/feature/|title = From protester to senator, FBI tracked Paul Wellstone - the Wellstone Files}}</ref> The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] began a case file on him after his May 1970 arrest for protesting the [[Vietnam War]] at the Federal Office Building in [[Minneapolis]]. In 1984 Wellstone was arrested again, for [[trespassing]] during a [[foreclosure]] protest at a bank.<ref name="minnesota.publicradio.org"/>

Wellstone extended his activism to the Minnesota labor movement. In the summer of 1985, he walked the [[picketing (protest)|picket line]] with striking [[Hormel#1985 strike|P-9ers]] during [[1985–86 Hormel strike|a labor dispute]] at the [[Hormel|Hormel Meat Packing]] plant in [[Austin, Minnesota]]. The [[Minnesota National Guard]] was called in during the strike to ensure that Hormel could hire permanent replacement workers.<ref name="startribune.com"/>

The trustees of Carleton College briefly fired Wellstone in the late 1970s for his activism and lack of academic publications. After his students held a [[sit-in]], the trustees rehired him and gave him tenure. Wellstone remains the youngest tenured faculty member in Carleton's history.<ref name="PassionateProgressive">{{cite book | last=Lofy | first=Bill | title=Paul Wellstone: The Life of a Passionate Progressive | publisher=University of Michigan Press | publication-place=Ann Arbor | date=2005 | isbn=978-0-472-03119-1 | pages=36–37}}</ref>