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James Owen Redmon
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James Owen Redmon
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Orator, African Americans, Education
Post title: Grinnell’s Colfax Orator
Date published: March 31, 2022
Link to blog post: https://grinnellstories.blogspot.com/2022/03/grinnells-colfax-orator.html
Drake Library Archive Digital File Name: GrinnellStories/2022-03-31 Grinnell’s Colfax Orator
Summary: A biography of James Owen Redmon, a talented orator from Colfax who graduated from Grinnell College. His speeches often were about race and racial equality, and spent much of his career as a teacher in black schools, helping serve his community and uplift education.
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Citizen’s Good Government League
Clampitt, Amy
Clampitt, Roy
Clarke, George Washington
Dean, Samuel
Dean, Maggie
Dr. Edward A, Steiner
Frederick Ball Community Building
Gaines, Bertha Strothers
Gaines, Donald
Gaines, Harold
Gates, George Augustus
Gates, Stanley
Grinnell College
Hall, James Norman
Hyde Oratorical
Hyde Prize Fund
Ladora Congregational Church
Main, John H. T.
Merrill Political Debate
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Quill and Gavel Society
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Redmon, Elizabeth Adams
Redmon, James Owen
Redmon, Oscar
Redmon, Sam
Redmon, Samuel
Redmon, Susie
Redmon’s Shining Parlor
Spaulding Prize
Strothers, L. W.
Welker, Leo
Young Colored Men’s Progressive Association