Join William Jones, author and founder of the Afrofuturism Network, as he discusses and signs copies of his book The Ex-Con, Voodoo Priest, Goddess, and the African King: A Social Cultural, and Political Analysis of Four Black Comic Book Heroes, which provides a history of black comic book characters and draws parallels between comic book […]
Have you ever wondered how those old pieces of pottery, bone, or rock “speak” to scientists? Discover how archaeologists use items left behind by previous people to create an understanding of the past. Explore and investigate artifacts from two types of shelters, one current “life-like-situation” and one real archaeological site from the past. This program […]
Iowa was the first state in the U.S. to officially integrate its public schools in 1867, just two years after the Civil War ended. Surprised? This and so much more is part of Iowa’s wealth of African American history. From York, the first African American in Iowa and member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, […]
The Underground Railroad operated as a loosely organized network of people, both black and white, working to funnel slaves out of slavery into areas of freedom and lasted from about the 1830s until the 1860s. Minimal documentation makes it difficult to show how many escaped in total, but only a couple hundred would have traveled […]
The Underground Railroad operated as a loosely organized network of people, both black and white, working to funnel slaves out of slavery into areas of freedom and lasted from about the 1830s until the 1860s. Minimal documentation makes it difficult to show how many escaped in total, but only a couple hundred would have traveled […]
Although Reconstruction-era constitutional amendments and federal legislation extended political and civil rights to African Americans, northern states were slow to offer the full enjoyment of those rights to their black citizens. Set in 1874, “Cross-Examined” explores the experience of two African American Iowa mothers—Charlotta Smith, a former slave, and Mary Jane Dove, the wife of […]
An African American woman’s Sunday hat is her crowning glory—it announces to the world that here is a beautiful, sophisticated, confident person. But Sunday is just one day of the week, and her Sunday hat is just one of the many “hats” she wears. It takes an extraordinary woman to wear all of these hats—professional, […]
Join Revival Theatre Company as we partner with the African American Museum of Iowa for an insightful discussion about "Ragtime the Musical," its music, dance and America's history at the turn of the century. Speakers include Orchestra Iowa's Music Director Tim Hankawich, Cornell College Instructor of Dance, Alvon Reed, Diversity fellow at Coe College, Deanna […]
