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Segregation of public facilities was barred in 1884, and the earlier miscegenation and school segregation laws were overturned in 1887. In 1953, the state enacted a law requiring that race be considered in adoption decisions which was supplanted in 1996 by Ohio's implementation of the federal multiethnic placement act (MEPA), by an ...
A black man goes into the "colored" entrance of a movie theater in Belzoni, Mississippi, 1939. [27] The legitimacy of laws requiring segregation of black people was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537.
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.
By 1905, independent historian Rachelle Chase wrote in Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa, it was "a town of 5,000 where 55 percent of the population was black." The typical Iowa coal town ...
In 1940, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. became the first Black person to achieve the rank of brigadier general in the US Army. His son, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., later commanded the famed Tuskegee Airmen. In ...
By far Iowa's longest-lasting African American newspaper, spanning over a century. Founded by "ten prominent black men who had migrated to Iowa during the 1870s." [18] Some issues available online; Des Moines: Inner City Challenger / Challenger: 1981 [13] 1984 [13] Monthly newspaper [13] Des Moines and Buxton: Iowa Colored Woman: 1907 [4] 1909 ...
Between 1910 and 1920, the number of Black workers employed in industry nearly doubled from 500,000 to 901,000. [44] After the Great Depression , more advances took place after workers in the steel and meatpacking industries organized into labor unions in the 1930s and 1940s, under the interracial Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
The Wilson administration introduced segregation in federal offices, despite much protest from African-American leaders and white progressive groups in the north and midwest. [35] He appointed segregationist Southern politicians because of his own firm belief that racial segregation was in the best interest of black and European Americans alike ...