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Published February 18, 2021 at 6:04 PM CST Listen • 48:47
Johnny Bright dodging a tackle from a 1951 Drake University football game.
Iowa History Camp 2021 is coming up on Saturday, February 20, and will be fully virtual this year. This is the fifth year for Iowa History Camp, a gathering of history lovers from all walks of life who come together to learn about history and to share their expertise. There is still time to register and spend the day learning.
On this edition of
Talk of Iowa, a preview of some of this year’s presentations. You ll learn about George Washington Carver s time in Iowa, the Algona Brownies baseball team, Drake University s Johnny Bright and Iowa s home front during the American Civil War.
Some said their deaths marked the end of an era. Others said it was the beginning of a new one.
“With each passing, the torch is being passed, ’ Dorie Ladner, 78, who helped register Blacks to vote in her native Mississippi, told me recently. “We’re mindful of the fact that there is so much work to do for the next generations to come.”
Thousands of “foot soldiers’’ challenged segregation in the Deep South and across the country during the turbulent 1950s and 1960s.
Over the years, I ve interviewed countless veterans, including some who worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality. Some were well-known and have a place in history books. Many weren’t featured in articles or chapters on the Civil Rights Movement. They nonetheless played critical roles, making lunch for activists, housing them and even hiding them. Cameras weren’t there when they refused to get up from all-white lunch counters. Nobody recorde