Iowa Famous

This Iowa teacher became famous for her blue eyes/brown eyes exercise that had children experience discrimination firsthand.

Waterloo schools canceled their annual African-American Read-in, fearing loss of funding. The 1619 Freedom School decided to plan their own.

Waterloo’s Gary Kroeger said that with his "Iowa modesty" he couldn’t believe he was in a room with so many stars.

In 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a third grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa, decided she needed to teach her students what discrimination really felt like.