Excerpted is Helen Focht's account of a trial integration of University of Iowa's Currier Hall in the summer of 1954 and her recollections of Betty (Arnett) Ward, the African American student involved in the integration.
"The fifth summer exhibition of contemporary art at the State University of Iowa ... is presented as a feature of the Eleventh Annual Festival of Fine Arts. The sculptures shown here have been chosen by Dr. Lester D. Longman, Head of the Department…