The cover page of this document says “Constitution of the State of Iowa” Adopted in Convention at Iowa City March 5th A.D. 1857 Submitted to the People for Adoption or Rejection at the Election to be held in August 1857....
Harper’s Weekly A Journal of Civilization, June 9, 1866, vol. X, no. 493 This issue of Harper’s Weekly has a full-page spread on images of “Freedmen” in North Carolina after the Civil War. The images include “Trent River Settlement, opposite...
This newspaper features articles on “Housing Conditions: Capitalism and Our Children;” “The Ideology of the Black Panther Party,” and “Pentagonized Society,” among others. The front page shows children playing in squalid conditions and states “We want decent housing for the...
Headline in the middle of the first page reads: “All 28 Defendants in Lynching Case Given Acquittals: Carolinians Charged with Slaying Colored Man Freed by Jury”
Headline on page 4 states: “Law Segregating Negroes Invalid Says High Court: Federal Supreme Judges Declare Louisville Ordinance is Unconstitutional” The article begins: “In a unanimous opinion handed down on Monday today the United States Supreme Court held invalid the...
“3 Bound to Grand Jury in Welfare Dinner Row” — this article discusses that three of the people who solicited money for welfare mothers at a banquet for the Iowa Welfare Association and were arrested are now chatged with interfering...
Titled “Stubborn Refusal to Aid Poor” the article states: “The Fayette County Board of Supervisors has remained firm in its refusal to sanction food programs for the poor. Despite appeals by the Oelwein mayor, Chamber of Commerce, local clergymen and...
Titled “Legal Help for the Poor,” the article describes that “the Iowa House Judiciary Committee has proposed a bill to authorize counties to support local legal aid programs. The measure would enable counties to provide help for the poor with...
This article, “Negro Total on Campuses is only 2%” by William Trombley, was reprinted from the Los Angels Times. It cites a report, titled “State Universities and Black Americans” commissed by the National Association of State Universities and Landgrant Colleges....
The articles “The Dilemma of the Black Businessman: Lack of Customers, Money, Experience, by Stephen Seplow eompiles the data regarding the lack of many Black owned businesses in Des Moines and interviews several Black business owners. [the article only discusses...
The article is titled “The Villains of Society,” written by Donald Kaul. He writes that, to the police, “the villains of American society are Welfare mothers.” His tongue-in-cheek article states that, when the welfare mothers and Charles Knox walked into...
the article is titled: “Maximum Force, Minimum Reason.” It covers the event at a banquet where people were arrested. The opening paragraph begins: “If there is one lesson which should have been learned by everyone in recent years, it is...
The article in full states “Mrs. Katherine Bryson, president of Mothers for Dignity and Justice, a group of welfare mothers, Friday, told how she and Mrs. Pat Auch were arrested at Hotel Savery Thursday night during a welfare banquet. Mrs....
Harvey B. Gantt, a former student at Iowa State University, petitioned successfully to become the first Black student at Clemson Agricultural College in South Carolina. The United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower courts ruling to allow...
The caption on the front below the photograph reads: “Newark New Jersey July 16 Sunday in riot plagued Newark. A little girl in her Sunday dress passes a National Guard roadblock on her way to church on the edge of...
A Discourse on the Character and Death of John Brown, Delivered in Martinsburgh, NY, December 12, 1859 by S. H. Taft, Paster of the Church of Martinsburgh. This is the Second edition — published by request, with an introduction by...
Yearbook, 1967, The 1967 Pelican, Central College, Pella, Iowa. page 180 shows two photos of Martin Luther King, jr., speaking to Central students, Pella Iowa. The text states “Christian Action Symposium was initiated by a grant from the Commission on...
collection of 17 snapshot photographs showing the incident “Disturbance in Good Park,” April 13, 1969. “North Side Revolutionaries in the Civil Rights Struggle” by Bruce Fehn and Robert Jefferson The Annals of Iowa 69 (Winter 2010) Excerpt: “During fall 1968...
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