• Collection: World War I
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Governor's office on situation: "these people cannot be good Americans and continue talking the German language."
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National Defense is asking Mr. Avery to go investigate a situation in which they believe a school is teaching only German. They also ask him to be on the lookout for other similar situations.
199541-997121 - Orabutt Christopher - May 6, 2016 354 PM - OrabuttC_LettertoSchoolsofIowa_Metcalf_Page#1.jpg.jpg

The Iowa Council of National Defense decided that German should not be taught in any schools in Iowa. German songs and texts must not be read or sung in schools either. It is mentioned that when this letter was written, there still was not a single…
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The Black Hawk, the student newspaper of Davenport High School, reported on the' burning of books in German "by about 50 lower classmen."
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