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"I Felt if Things Didn't Change, the World Would Come to an End": Black Iowa Women's Activism During the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1965
No full textEMILY BRONSWICK examines the history of Black Iowa women’s activism during the Civil Rights era, looking specifically at the diverse methods and approaches Black women employed to advocate for change. Bronswick connects diverse efforts ranging from sit-ins and legal cases to challenges to the development of the Des Moines metro’s Interstate 235 to analyze the scope and impact of this wide-ranging activist movement
Barbara E. Walvoord, Women's Rights in Midwest Dutch America, 1847-1979: A History and a Memoir
No full textCarroll Engelhardt, By the Sweat of His Brow: The R.M. Probstfield Family at Oakport Farm
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Megan Birk, The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms
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Roundtable on When A Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s
No full textROUNDTABLE ON WHEN A DREAM DIES brings together four scholars to reflect on the significance and impact of Pamela Riney-Kehrberg’s new book When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s (University of Kansas Press, 2022). Historians J. L. Anderson, Jenny Barker-Devine, and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil are joined by rural sociologist Mark Friedberger and each offers thought-provoking assessments of the new work, and Riney-Kehrberg concludes the roundtable with her response