Monthly Archive: September 2019

African-American children study thanksgiving

Meet Susan Clark, the First Black Child to Go to a Desegregated School

September 22, 2019 | By The Conversation

The first African-American child who won court approval to attend a whites-only school was Susan Clark in Muscatine, Iowa in 1868.

F. Scott Fitzgerald pictured at his writing desk, but now wearing a modern football helmet

College Football Time is F. Scott Fitzgerald Time

September 7, 2019 | By Fritz Holznagel

Blustery September Saturdays mean it’s time for an annual reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s sporting masterpiece The Bowl. This is not The Cut-Glass Bowl, Fitzgerald’s more famous (and gloomier) short …..