2025 Research in the Capitol
Presentation Type
Open Access Poster Presentation
Abstract
There are a variety of aspects of a town that assist in showing how it has been racially exclusionary. This research project focuses on one main way, and that is through the attitudes and racial makeup of Cedar Falls High School from 1917-1990. By looking at different activities pictured within the yearbook, when the first Black student enrolled in CFHS, when the first Black teacher was hired, and other aspects that would show racial integration or discrimination, further insight is given into why Cedar Falls would be considered a sundown town.
Start Date
31-3-2025 11:30 AM
End Date
31-3-2025 1:30 PM
Event Host
University Honors Programs, Iowa Regent Universities
Faculty Advisor
Jayme Renfro
Department
Department of Political Science
Copyright
©2025 Jadin Grieser
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Grieser, Jadin, "Yearbooks as a Tool in Racial History Research" (2025). Research in the Capitol. 3.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/rcapitol/2025/all/3
Yearbooks as a Tool in Racial History Research
There are a variety of aspects of a town that assist in showing how it has been racially exclusionary. This research project focuses on one main way, and that is through the attitudes and racial makeup of Cedar Falls High School from 1917-1990. By looking at different activities pictured within the yearbook, when the first Black student enrolled in CFHS, when the first Black teacher was hired, and other aspects that would show racial integration or discrimination, further insight is given into why Cedar Falls would be considered a sundown town.
