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===African American=== | ===African American=== | ||
*See [[African American Resources for Iowa]] | *See [[African American Resources for Iowa]] | ||
Iowa’s first constitution of 1846 required blacks to pay a $500 bond to enter the state and barred them from voting, holding office, serving in the state militia, attending public schools and marrying whites.<ref> Outside In: African-American History in Iowa, 1838-2000. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 2001.</ref> After 1865 that the African American population tripled mainly emigrating from neighboring states. <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=chC81in93GUC&pg=PA220&lpg=PA220&dq=The+Coming+of+the+Foreigners+iowa&source=bl&ots=AxZyKDl1PY&sig=UktLaSjkoMOt8T8NmI3w6KXfUKE&hl=en&ei=xbDiTf_cJMHniAL38Y2rBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Coming%20of%20the%20Foreigners%20iowa&f=false Google Books]</ref> <ref>Alice Eichholz, ed., ''Redbook: American State, County, and Town Sources, 3rd ed.'' (Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2004), 291. ({{FHL|479190|item|disp= | Iowa’s first constitution of 1846 required blacks to pay a $500 bond to enter the state and barred them from voting, holding office, serving in the state militia, attending public schools and marrying whites.<ref> Outside In: African-American History in Iowa, 1838-2000. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 2001.</ref> After 1865 that the African American population tripled mainly emigrating from neighboring states. <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=chC81in93GUC&pg=PA220&lpg=PA220&dq=The+Coming+of+the+Foreigners+iowa&source=bl&ots=AxZyKDl1PY&sig=UktLaSjkoMOt8T8NmI3w6KXfUKE&hl=en&ei=xbDiTf_cJMHniAL38Y2rBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Coming%20of%20the%20Foreigners%20iowa&f=false Google Books]</ref> <ref>Alice Eichholz, ed., ''Redbook: American State, County, and Town Sources, 3rd ed.'' (Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2004), 291. ({{FHL|479190|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 D27rb}}). [[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55947869 WorldCat entry]].</ref> | ||
Different occupations brought the African American population to Iowa. Lead mining, laying tracks for the railroad, and in the river towns of Burlington, Davenport, Keokuk and Sioux City, they worked as deckhands on ships that traveled up and down the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. | Different occupations brought the African American population to Iowa. Lead mining, laying tracks for the railroad, and in the river towns of Burlington, Davenport, Keokuk and Sioux City, they worked as deckhands on ships that traveled up and down the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. | ||
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