The History of Polk County, Iowa
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Page : 1054 pages
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Release : 1880
Category : Polk County (Iowa)
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Page : 1054 pages
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Release : 1880
Category : Polk County (Iowa)
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Author : J. M. Dixon
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Polk County (Iowa)
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Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Polk County (Iowa)
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Author : J. M. Dixon
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Polk County (Iowa)
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Author : Johnson Brigham
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Page : 1464 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Des Moines (Iowa)
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Author : Union Historical Company
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Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Polk County (Iowa)
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Page : 1037 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Polk County (Iowa)
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Author : J. M. Dixon
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Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Iowa
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Author : J. M. Dixon
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Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 1997-07
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ISBN : 9780832866999
Author : Honesty Parker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738582962
Although African American pioneers arrived in Des Moines, Iowa, in the early 1860s, the population exploded in the 1880s due to the surrounding coal mines. In the 1860s, the Burns Methodist Episcopal Church was the first African American church built in Des Moines, and its only address was "East Side of the River." From 1900 to the 1960s, African Americans across the United States called Center Street "the coolest place in the country." The likes of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and many others graced the hotels and clubs there. In Des Moines in the late 1960s and early 1970s, young African Americans discarded the term Negro and demanded to be referred to as Afro-American or black, as black pride swelled in their chests.