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Fighting for Education Equality

Alexander Clark House
The Alexander Clark House in Muscatine, Iowa. Clark was a pioneer for African-American education in Iowa.

Knowledge is power and throughout history groups with power have denied it to others by limiting their access to education.  Even in Iowa, always a free state, the barriers to education for African-Americans were high.

Host Charity Nebbe speaks with Richard Breaux of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Kesho Scott of Grinnell College about the history of African-American students at Iowa's universities and colleges.

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Charity Nebbe is the host of IPR's Talk of Iowa