Racial and Social Justice Movements in Iowa: Past and Present
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Selected readings and resources related to the webinar event, "Racial and Social Justice Movements in Iowa: Past and Present," which occurred on 9/23/20.

For Janet Weaver's talk “When Cesar Chavez came to Davenport”

Note: All Annals of Iowa articles are open access online.

  • Robert R. Dykstra, Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier (Cambridge, MA, 1993).
  • Noah Lawrence, “ ‘Since it is my right, I would like to have it’: Edna Griffin and the Katz Drug Store Desegregation Movement,” Annals of Iowa, 67 (2008).
  • George William McDaniel, “Catholic Action in Davenport: St. Ambrose College and the League for Social Justice,” Annals of Iowa, 55 (1996).
  • George William McDaniel, “Trying Iowa’s Civil Rights Act in Davenport: The Case of Charles and Ann Toney,” Annals of Iowa, 60 (2001).
  • Kara Mollano, “Race, Roads, and Right-of-Way: A Campaign to Block Highway Construction in Fort Madison,” Annals of Iowa, 68 (2009).
  • Katrina M. Sanders, “The Burlington Self-Survey in Human Relations: Interracial Efforts for Constructive Community Change,” Annals of Iowa, 60 (2001).
  • Kathryn A. Schumaker, “The Politics of Youth: Civil Rights Reform in the Waterloo Public Schools,” Annals of Iowa, 72 (2013).
  • Omar Valerio-Jiménez, “Racializing Mexican Immigrants in Iowa’s Early Mexican Communities,” Annals of Iowa, 75 (2016).
  • Janet Weaver, “From Barrio to ‘¡Boicoteo!’: The Emergence of Mexican American Activism in Davenport,” Annals of Iowa, 68 (2009).
  • Janet Weaver, “Barrio Women: Community and Coalition in the Heartland,” in Breaking the Wave: Women, their Organizations and Feminism, edited by Kathleen A. Laughlin and Jacqueline Castledine (Routledge, 2011).
  • Migration is Beautiful website

For Erik Henderson's talk, “Present Day Activism”: