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Iola

City and seat of Allen County, southeastern Kansas, on the Neosho River, 27 km/17 mi north-northeast of Chanute; population (1990) 6,400.

Iola was founded in 1859.From 1893 until the 1920s, its prosperity was based on natural-gas deposits found in the region, but today grain, livestock, dairy products, and light manufactures are central to its economy. The city is the site of Allen County Community College (founded 1923).



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23) While Randolph may be unfamiliar to most contemporary scholars, the second author is not: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's novel Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) was published simultaneously by James H.
A new regional seed company, AgVenture of Eastern Kansas, Iola, KS, announces its launch and the signing of an exclusive territory agreement with AgVenture, Inc.
Interspersing a quote from Frances Harper's 1893 novel, Iola Leroy, in which a white Southerner claims that "tricks of the blood" betray white-looking blacks to a practiced (white) eye, Piper implicitly aligns these inclusive assertions on the part of middle-class blacks with exclusionary statements made by racist whites near the turn of the twentieth century, when hysteria about miscegenation and interracial proximity was reaching its peak in the South.
 
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