1921
Lorena Suggs becomes the first African American woman to graduate from The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, paving the way for pharmacy students Marie Brown, Alvenia Burton, and Gwendolyn Wilson later in the 1920s.
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Breaux, Richard M. "Maintaining a Home for Girls: The Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs at The University of Iowa, 1919-1950." The Journal of African American History 87 (2002):236-255.
Breaux, Richard M. "Facing Hostility, Finding Housing: African American Students at The University of Iowa, 1920s-1950s." Iowa Heritage Illustrated Spring (2002):14-15.
Breaux, Richard Melvin. "Women of 942 Iowa Avenue and Other AA Women at The University of Iowa Before 1947." Unpublished list, 1999.