CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — It was history lessons galore Monday at the Czech and Slovak Museum Library.
An event for International Students Day honored young people making the push for freedom and democracy through history, including demonstrations on this day in 1939 and 1989.
Ernie Buresh, who is the namesake of the clock tower on the north side of the village, wrote about the importance of those principles in his memoir, The Advantage of Being Born Poor…