The Lost History of the Civil Rights Movement

Modupe Labode is the Public Scholar of African American History and Museums at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus. Previously, she was chief historian for the Colorado Historical Society, and she has taught in the Department of History at Iowa State University. Labode was named a Rhodes Scholar in 1988, the fourth student and first woman from ISU to receive the honor. She graduated from Iowa State in 1988 with a BS in history and received her Ph.D. from Oxford University. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Keynote Address and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.