Learn about the first successful school desegregation case in the United States and its influence on Brown vs the Board of Topeka Kansas 87 years later in this video gallery adapted from Iowa PBS’s documentary Lost in History: Alexander Clark. From helping a fugitive slave to working to sign upBlack Americans to fight in the Civil War, Alexander Clark was a man of courage and conviciton at a time in American when he, a free Black man, could have been enslaved and persecuted just for speaking out for change.