“Iowa Past to Present:  The People and the Prairie,”
by Dorothy Schwieder, Thomas Morain and Lynn Nielsen





 “We were dying by the score…We stacked them up like cordwood at the side of the troop ship… to make room for the living.”
World War l veteran speaking of influenza, Marshalltown 1988




“Women take part on the deliberation of the assembly… they can offer their opinion and counsel but are not permitted to vote.”

                                                                                          William Hinds, Icaria 1878.




 “In Waterloo I couldn’t find a teaching job
because they only hired white people.”
                                                                             Vaeletta Fields 1920s.

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