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This guy? https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-oxlong-a1a65580Mike Oxlong
Robert Hansen….and not the good one.Ottis Toole - Wikipedia
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2-3 years ago, I met Otis's jailer who was the sheriff of the county west of Austin back then. He and I had about a twenty minute conversation. I had read an article in the "Atlantic" years earlier which featured lots of background provided by this sheriff, and he more or less confirmed all of the details that I remembered from the article.Ottis Toole - Wikipedia
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Alexander Clark. Sued his local school district in the 60s to allow his daughter to attend the school that was only for whites. And won, forcing integration of public schools in Iowa. This was in the 1860s, almost 90 years before Brown v Board of Education. And was used as precedent by the US Supreme Court when making their later ruling.
Was a leader in the movement to modify the state constitution to give blacks the right to vote in Iowa in 1868.
His son was the first black person to earn a law degree from the University of Iowa in 1879. He was the second five years later.
Was appointed the ambassador to Liberia in 1890, the highest ranking black man in the US government at the time.
He also helped recruit over 1000 black soldiers for the Union in the Civil War but was unable to serve himself for physical reasons.
Any one of those things would make him a local celebrity. One man doing all of that is infamous, for good reasons.