RESOURCES

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN IOWA (BOOKS & ARTICLES)

Muchakinocki: African Americans and the Making of an Iowa Coal Town by Pam Stek (2009) Iowa State Historical Society

African Americans in Iowa: A Chronicle of Contributions 1830-1992 by Frances Hawthorne (1992) F.E. Hawthorne Publishers

Life Narratives of African Americans in Iowa by Charline Barnes (2001) Acardia Publishing

Emancipations Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest by Leslie Schwalm (2009) University of North Carolina Press

Invisible Hawkeyes: African Americans at the University of Iowa During the Long Civil Rights Era by Lena Hill and Michael Hill (2016) University of Iowa Press

Report of the Governors Task Force on the Overrepresentation of African American in Prison in Iowa (2001)

Life Narratives of African Americans in Iowa by Katrina Sanders

Exploring Buried Buxton: Archeology of an Abandoned Iowa Coal Mining Town with a Large Black Population by David Gradwohl and Nancy Osbor (1990) University of Iowa Press

Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa by Rachel Chase (2019) The History Press

Outside In: African American History in Iowa 1838-2000 by Bill Silag, Susan Koch-Bridgford and Hall Chase (2001) State Historical Society of Iowa

Iowa’s Black Legacy by Charline Barnes

• Alpha Phi Alpha (Alpha Theta)

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA https://fsl.uiowa.edu/join/nphc/organization-info/alpha-phi-alpha-fraternity-inc/

IOWA STATE https://sfe.dso.iastate.edu/chapters/alpha-phi-alpha-omicron-pi

• Kappa Alpha Psi

IOWA STATE https://sfe.dso.iastate.edu/node/171

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA https://fsl.uiowa.edu/join/nphc/organization-info/kappa-alpha-psi-fraternity-inc/

DES MOINES, IA https://www.facebook.com/The-Des-Moines-Alumni-Chapter-of-Kappa-Alpha-Psi-Fraternity-Inc-105713371154397/

• Omega Psi Phi

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA https://fsl.uiowa.edu/join/nphc/organization-info/omega-psi-phi/

IOWA STATE https://sfe.dso.iastate.edu/chapters/omega-psi-phi-mu-theta

• Phi Beta Sigma

IOWA STATE https://sfe.dso.iastate.edu/chapters/phi-beta-sigma-kappa-gamma

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA https://www.facebook.com/iowasigmas/

Black Sororities

• Alpha Kappa Alpha

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA https://fsl.uiowa.edu/join/nphc/organization-info/alpha-kappa-alpha-sorority-inc/

IOWA STATE https://sfe.dso.iastate.edu/chapters/alpha-kappa-alpha

DES MOINES, IA https://www.facebook.com/akaizodsm/

• Delta Sigma Theta

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA https://www.facebook.com/akaizodsm/

IOWA STATE https://sfe.dso.iastate.edu/chapters/delta-sigma-theta-phi

DES MOINES, IA https://www.dstdesmoines.org/

• Sigma Gamma Rho

IOWA STATE https://sfe.dso.iastate.edu/chapters/sigma-gamma-rho-theta-psi

• Zeta Phi Beta

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA https://fsl.uiowa.edu/join/nphc/organization-info/zeta-phi-beta-sorority-inc/

IOWA STATE https://sfe.dso.iastate.edu/chapters/zeta-phi-beta-upsilon-nu

University Organizations

• African American Council https://africanamericancouncil.uiowa.edu/about
• Afro American Cultural Center https://www.facebook.com/Afrohouseuiowa/
• Black Student Union https://www.facebook.com/bsuiowa/
• Black Graduate and Professional Students https://www.facebook.com/UIBGAPS/
• Center for Diversity and Enrichment https://diversity.uiowa.edu/division/center-diversity-and-enrichment-cde
• The Hubbard Group https://www.facebook.com/HubbardGroup
• Upward Bound https://diversity.uiowa.edu/programs/high-school-hawkeyes/trio-upward-bound

Community Organizations

• African American Museum of Iowa
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County
• Children of Promise https://www.childrenofpromisementoringprogram.org/about
• U of I and Iowa City NAACP

Churches

• African Methodist Episcopal Churches https://www.ame-church.com/

IOWA CITY https://www.bethelamechurch.org/

The Kingdom Center

New Creations International Church

State Organizations

• Ongoing Covenant with Black Iowa
• The State Data Center of Iowa and the Iowa Commission on the Status of African Americans in Iowa: 2010
• Iowa Civil Rights Commission https://icrc.iowa.gov/

• Iowa Commission on the Status of African Americans (ICSAA) https://humanrights.iowa.gov/cas/saa/events/iowa-commission-status-african-americans-meeting-12

• The Sentencing Project