In my judgment, these women did not passively condone Southern segregation practices and actively manipulate racist ideology solely, or even primarily, because of personal bad intentions.

They did, however, have the option of actively resisting racism, although at the likely cost of a significant delay in obtaining woman suffrage.In September 1997, Iowa State student Allan Nosworthy announced he was initiating a hunger strike.

[8] The movement continued to gain momentum as the university experienced several racist incidents in 2019–2020 and the country embarked on a national conversation about race in the wake of George Floyd's murder by police officers in Minneapolis.

On July 9, 2020, Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen announced the creation of an ad-hoc committee to develop a policy and process for renaming buildings and other honorifics on campus.

[11] Iowa State contracted with History Associates Incorporated of Rockville, Maryland, to conduct background research on Carrie Chapman Catt.

[13] After a sixty-day public comment period, university president Wendy Wintersteen formally accepted the recommendation that the name of Catt Hall not be changed.