Dates

• Existence: 1905-1983

Biography

May Tangen (1905-1983) worked as a librarian at the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa) for nineteen years beginning in the late 1940s. Upon her retirement from the University of Iowa in 1967, Tangen accepted a position at Rust College, a historically black college in Holly Springs, Mississippi with which the University of Iowa had an affiliation. There she became an active member in a local Methodist church with a predominantly African American congregation. She left her position at Rust in 1975 to travel in England and Norway, but returned to Mississippi after two and a half months. She moved back to Iowa in 1978 when she could not find a racially integrated retirement home near Holly Springs. She lived in Fort Dodge until her death in 1983.

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