IOWA CITY — In the past few weeks, the issue of civil rights in the United States has taken center stage. Nine people were shot dead in a historic black church in South Carolina on June 17. Days later, the state’s governor called for removal of the Confederate flag from capitol grounds. And on June 26, the U.S.
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