Seniors in the Wartburg College Department of Journalism & Communication capstone course will premiere their final documentaries on Monday, April 19.

The films will be livestreamed on Knight Vision, beginning at 1 p.m. with “Letters from a Young State,” which tells the story of Fredrika Bremer, a Swedish author, feminist reformer and namesake of Fredrika, Iowa, and Bremer County.

Following that at 1:30 p.m. will be “Changing Hearts and Minds: The Ruby Sutton Story.” Sutton, of Dubuque, was a champion of social justice who worked to make her hometown more welcoming during some of its most divisive years. In 1989, Sutton received the NAACP First Humanitarian Award, which was later named in her honor.

Wrapping up the afternoon will be “My People’s Bones: The Life & Fight of Maria Pearson” at 2 p.m., which showcases the impact Pearson had on the Indigenous communities of Iowa and beyond. She was the driving force behind the creation of the Iowa Burial Protections Act and the Native American Grave and Repatriation Act of 1990, both of which protect the remains and artifacts of Indigenous societies dug up by archaeologists.

The short films are traditionally part of the college’s Research, Internship and Creative Endeavor (RICE) Day celebration. The full event was canceled this year as part of the college’s COVID-19 mitigation strategy; however many students still completed the research and projects that are usually showcased during the daylong event.