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Pages in category "African-American history of Iowa" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Founded to show that separate but equal educational institutions for African Americans were viable, and that racial integration, mandated by Brown v. Board of Education, was unnecessary. Closed shortly after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; nominally merged with St. Petersburg Junior College (today St. Petersburg College). Guadalupe College
First Jewish American male (district court): Ansel Chapman in 1968 [15] First African American male (district court): Luther T. Glanton, Jr. in 1976 [13] [14] First male of part Vietnamese descent (Iowa Supreme Court): Christopher McDonald in 2019 [16] First African American male (Third Judicial District): Robert Tiefenthaler in 2022 [17]
Think of Iowa, our home. Many people picture cornfields: the Great Plains of the American heartland. One thing many outsiders may not know about this agrarian, predominantly white state where we ...
From 1787 to 1868, enslaved African Americans were counted in the U.S. census under the Three-fifths Compromise.The compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population.
Fragments of the first issue of the Iowa Bystander, from 1894. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Iowa. The first African American newspaper in Iowa was the Colored Advance of Corning, Iowa, founded in 1882. [1] It was followed the next year by the Des Moines Rising Son. [1]
Petersburg in eastern Delaware County, Iowa, in 1903. The first building, a store, was built in Petersburg in 1873. The post office was established in 1874. [1] Petersburg's population was 76 in 1902. [2] Saints Peter and Paul parish is a Roman Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Dubuque.
The largest African-American community is in Atlanta, Georgia; followed by Washington, DC; Houston, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; [1] [circular reference] and Detroit, Michigan. [2] About 80 percent of the city population is African-American. A quarter of Metro Detroit (Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties) are African-American.