Like the CRANDIC Interurban, the street cars of the Iowa City Electric Railway were powered by overhead electricity, but unlike the CRANDIC, these trolleys traveled throughout our fair city for only a short period of 20 years (1910-1930) before being replaced by motorized buses.
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Four years after Rosa Parks made her stand and five years before the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 — Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks in the SUI’s Iowa Memorial Union Ballroom, urging the standing-room-only crowd to not fall into complacency on the march toward social justice.
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The Iowa City Press-Citizen was formed in 1920 from the merger of two popular city newspapers: The Iowa City Daily Press – founded in 1860 and representing the political views of the Democrat Party, and The Iowa City Daily Citizen – founded in 1891 and leaning strongly toward Republican politics. The last editions of The Daily Press and The Daily Citizen were published in October 30, 1920.
Our Picture of the Week is an Our Iowa Heritage blog series that offers you a little bit of Iowa trivia from a large selection of stories on our website.