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NICC
Celebrates African-American Heritage Month
Posted 2 February
2010
Northeast Iowa
Community College (NICC) and the Diversity Council will host events to
celebrate African-American Heritage Month in February. The first event,
“What’s with all the QUILTS?” begins on Feb. 1 at the Peosta campus.
Another exhibit, open from Feb. 17-18, features an Underground Railroad
exhibit in the Peosta campus boardroom. These events are free and open
to
the public.
“What’s with all the QUILTS?” runs from Feb. 1-26 and staff, students
and the public are invited to participate in a scavenger hunt in the
main building. The activity utilizes Ozella’s Underground Railroad
quilt codes to share how current and former slaves, abolitionists and
human rights activists in the 19th century communicated with escaped
slaves en route to the North during their struggle for freedom.
Participants may pick up a trivia sheet at the Peosta campus
switchboard and search the building for each type of quilt code. The
scavenger hunt concludes with a final quilt in the Burton Payne
Library. At the library, all participants may enter to win a gift
certificate to the NICC bookstore.
On Feb. 17-18, NICC will display an historical exhibit in the campus
boardroom that illustrates Iowa’s crucial part in the Underground
Railroad. The exhibit is open 9 a.m. 5 p.m. both days. The
Underground Railroad was a vast network of people who helped fugitive
slaves escape to the North and Canada. The network was not run by any
single organization or person, and the effort effectively moved
hundreds of slaves northward each year.
For more information on the events, contact Cindy Benedict, NICC
Diversity Council co-chairperson and TRiO-Student Support Services
director, at (563) 556-5110, ext. 406.
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