It’s a shame what’s happened to Iowa, home to the highest per capita Union Army volunteer enlistment rate during the Civil War and to a progressive farmer tradition that produced the left 1948 presidential candidate Henry Wallace.  Iowa’s public schools were desegregated nearly one hundred years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954’s Brown vs. the Board of Education decision.  Iowa was the first state to admit women to the bar, in 1869 — three years before the Supreme Court decided states could deny women the right to practice law. More

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