The Iowa Federation Home for Colored Girls provided off-campus dormitory-style housing for African American students during a time when the University of Iowa barred them from living on campus and housing was difficult for Black students to find due to racial discrimination. Though the University of Iowa admitted African American students as early as the 1870s and constructed dormitories in the 1910s, they would not allow Black students to live there until 1946.

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