First, we are not formally associated with the similarly named title of the newsletter of the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa, although I am sure that is a great resource that Iowa researchers will be interested in.

I am very pleased to present you with the Iowa African American Griots site. If you have any information to share with the site, or if you have any suggestions, or if you would like to help in any way with the site, please contact me. My name is Alice Warner and my email is EmbryProject@gmail.com I am not African American myself, but I am dedicated to preserving that heritage and have known many people very disappointed with the lack of resources available for African American research. Although I manage these pages, they are really *your* pages, for you, the researcher. If you think something needs to be done "better" or "differently"-- just let me know. I can't fix something I don't know is broken.

Information is broken down by county, and you can find the county names along the left. As you can see we are really just starting out with Iowa, so this will take a while to build into an amazing website. Statewide Resources are listed below. Don't forget to check out the IAGenweb and the Iowa USGenweb Archives for information. Some African American information is probably there that is not linked on this site, due to the high number of documents that do not mention race at all.