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Local Stories

Videos

Center Street and Jazz Videos courtesy of Abe Goldstein

Interviews

Family's StoryJoyce Bruce
00:00 / 16:56
Housing Discrimination Story in 1966Sharon K Brown
00:00 / 01:21
Her Family's StoryBobbretta Brewton
00:00 / 12:43
Center Street StoryPeggy Spates
00:00 / 09:56
A Conversation with Catherine and JoyceCatherine Williams and Joyce Bruce
00:00 / 50:14

An interview with Marguerite E. Cothorn recorded on October 21, 1986

for the Iowa Oral History Project

Tape 1: Side 1 Iowa Civil Rights and Black HistoryMarguerite E. Cothorn
00:00 / 44:36
Tape 2: Side 1 Iowa Civil Rights and Black HistoryMarguerite E. Cothorn
00:00 / 1:17:56

Marguerite E. Cothorn Interview done by Carol Rick 

Tape 1: Side 2 Iowa Civil Rights and Black HistoryMarguerite E. Cothorn
00:00 / 44:35
Tape 2: Side 2 Iowa Civil Rights and Black HistoryMarguerite E. Cothorn
00:00 / 51:28

Honoring the historic Center Street neighborhood

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