This column by Daniel G. Clark about Alexander Clark (1826-1891) first appeared in the Muscatine Journal.
September 1974. One building or the other might have been doomed.
The fate of the historic Alexander Clark House was at stake. So was the long-planned and much needed apartment high-rise that now bears the name of the Muscatine resident one historian calls “the most important African American leader who almost no one has heard of.”
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