This week on the program we remember civil rights advocate Flora Lee who died suddenly last week. We remember her life and legacy and hear some tributes to her lifelong work to educate and illuminate the lives of Siouxlanders. Siouxland Public Media's Sheila Brummer attended a vigil in Sioux City in Flora's honor Monday evening and has a report. We also hear an interview with Flora as part of the Siouxland Public Media series Facing a Changed World. She talks with General Manager Mark Munger. Also, Mark, Siouxland Public Media's Steve Smith and Sioux City NAACP President Ike Rayford share stories about the effect Flora had on their lives.
And we take a trip to Briar Cliff University to talk about the last edition of The Briar Cliff Review.
We speak with English professor Tricia Currans-Sheehan, who has edited every edition of the Review over 35 years.
Also at Briar Cliff University we to speak with professor of fine arts and Nan Wilson, artists who is creating a multi-wall portrait depicting the school’s corner stone laying ceremony in 1930. We also talk with biology professor Dr. Brian Hazlett, who spearheaded the project and helped put the school in context with surrounding Loess Hills.
In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, we talk with the author a new novel focusing on the Chinese Exclusion Act, a law that prevented Chinese immigration in 1882. The act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese immigration from 1882-to-1943. Ava Chinn is the author of Mott Street: An Asian-American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming.
