Records of the Office of Education. 1870 - 1980. Office Files
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Goodykoontz, Bess, 1894-1990
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Bess Goodykoontz (1894-1990) was born in Waukon, Iowa. She earned bachelors and master's degrees in education from the University of Iowa. Following her studies, Goodykoontz taught at schools in rural Iowa as well as the experimental school at the University of Iowa before serving as supervisor of elementary schools in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1929, President Herbert Hoover appointed her Assistant U.S. Commissioner of Education, a position that she held in the Bureau of Education for the next...
Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
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The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. On August 9, 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Reverend Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Reverend Jackson h...
