Correspondence between LeMars Elementary Schools Principal Orval Nielsen and University of Iowa President Virgil Hancher regarding the election of an African American homecoming queen.
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.
![Oral history interview with Helen Focht [excerpt]](https://www.iowaheritage.org/files/thumbnails/74b48f0e9aa3220b761ee90ea6fc13b6.jpg "Oral history interview with Helen Focht [excerpt]")
