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Dorothy Schramm newspaper clippings, 1949-1955 (folder 2 of 2)

Des Moines Register Article: "Still a Weak Spot in Civil Rights"

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Still a Weak  Spot in Civil Rights.
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It's getting so that Iowans now make quite a fuss about any conspicuous racial or religious discrimination, whether it is within the law or not. But we still silently acquiesce in very widespread and open violation of the Iowa Civil Rights Statute, which gives "all persons within this state full and equal enjoyment" of inns, eating houses, public conveyances, barber shops, bathhouses, and places of amusement.
This law was passed with some enthusiasm in 1884, and strengthened by amendments in 1892 and 1923.
A former student at the State University of Iowa, Robert E. Goostree, now teaching government and politics at the University of Maryland, made a study of how the law has fared, and the gist of the it was printed in the Iowa Law Review.
This law has reached the Iowa supreme court four times. It was twice nibbled at by interpretation, twice upheld as applicable to the case at hand. In the decade ending June 1950, there were only 22 criminal prosecutions and 14 civil actions based on the law. Out of this, three persons paid fines and one paid $1 in damages.
yet when Goostree sent questinnaires to our 99 county atto

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[[Handwriting]] Please return & ?? [[Header in bold]] Still a Weak Spot in Civil Rights. [[end bold]] [[Article text]] It's getting so that Iowans now make quite a fuss about any conspicuous racial or religious discrimination, whether it is within the law or not. But we still silently acquiesce in very widespread and open violation of the Iowa Civil Rights Statute, which gives "all persons within this state full and equal enjoyment" of inns, eating houses, public conveyances, barber shops, bathhouses, and places of amusement. This law was passed with some enthusiasm in 1884, and strengthened by amendments in 1892 and 1923. A former student at the State University of Iowa, Robert E. Goostree, now teaching government and politics at the University of Maryland, made a study of how the law has fared, and the gist of the it was printed in the Iowa Law Review. This law has reached the Iowa supreme court four times. It was twice nibbled at by interpretation, twice upheld as applicable to the case at hand. In the decade ending June 1950, there were only 22 criminal prosecutions and 14 civil actions based on the law. Out of this, three persons paid fines and one paid $1 in damages. yet when Goostree sent questinnaires to our 99 county atto