Diane Fannon-Langton

Iowa football star was first Black lineman in the NFL before becoming a lawyer and judge in Chicago.

Time Machine: After Herbert Richard Wright became a lawyer, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him as U.S. consul to Honduras and later to Venezuela.

TIME MACHINE: Refused use of a hall by the DAR in 1939, Anderson sang from steps of Lincoln Memorial before 75,000 people.

Cedar Rapids company specialized in printing rare, limited edition books after 1905 founding.

Edgar Bergen dropped into a meeting in Cedar Rapids in1963 and used his hand to demonstrate his ventriloquism talent. Donations spiked 23 percent after his talk.

Ada Van Vechten pushed to open a free, public library in Cedar Rapids 125 years ago.

TIME MACHINE: Members gathered in Eighth Avenue building for more than a century

Figures still on display in Algona every December

State went slightly bonkers in 1956 after bowl invite

Charles Hollenbeck sold the land -- a popular picnicking spot -- to two men, who created a modern “park-like” cemetery, Cedar Memorial Cemetery.

Two men — an immigrant and a dentist — provided 30 years of free Thanksgiving dinners in Cedar Rapids

At a time when Blacks were not welcome in Midwest hotels, James Weldon Johnson was welcomed into the Van Vechten Shaffer home in Cedar Rapids.

The owner of a Cedar Rapids office supply store saved a steam locomotive from the scrap yard and brought it to Cedar Rapids.

Famous for his cloud paintings, he moved indoors

National Newspaper Week began in October 1940 but didn’t catch fire with newspapers staffers. As a whole, they rarely toot their own horns, having more important stories to pursue.