wa00003/wa00003.1. Individual and Family Papers
Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:
Ruth Bluford Anderson papers
Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa, author, and Black Hawk County Supervisor.
Jane Burleson papers
Teacher's aide, packinghouse worker, and union activist, Burleson was the first woman and first African American elected to the Fort Dodge City Council.
Cecile Cooper papers
Mary Bell Read Glick papers
Two memoirs, "Adolph Gfeller Family: A Pictorial History of a Pioneer German Swiss Farm Family in Kansas, beginning 1874" and "Our 64 Years, 1932-1996," by Mary Bell Glick.
Phyllis Kempema papers
Clippings, letters, and photographs relating to Discovery House (Spirit Lake), a treatment center for recovering addicts.
Edith Reed Atkinson papers
Singer and radio-script editor from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Atkinson performed in a song-and-dance act with her brothers Wallace and Cecil Reed from 1935 to 1944.
Venise T. Berry papers
Novelist and associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa.
Marguerite Cothorn papers
Social worker and political activist, who served on the Iowa Civil Rights Commission from 1983 to 1984.
Wynonna G. Hubbard photographs
African-American woman from Valley Junction, Iowa whose husband, Philip Hubbard, established a scholarship in her name at the University of Iowa.
Martha Nash papers
Civil rights activist, community and religious leader, she was executive director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Education and Vocational Training in Waterloo.
Betty Mae Page papers
Waterloo, Iowa resident who served on Governor Ray's Commission on the Status of Women.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Sarilda Phillips papers
Mississippi schoolteacher who was forced into retirement in 1956 following desegregation.
Olabelle Reed papers
Teacher, community activist, and co-founder of Club Les Dames, an African American women's club in Waterloo.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Lillian Moore Scales papers
Estherville, Iowa-born homemaker and teacher who was active in literary, political, and religious groups in Des Moines.
Jacqueline Scott papers
Geneva Southall papers
Professor Emeritus of Afro-American Studies and Music at the University of Minnesota; University of Iowa alumna.
Elizabeth "Bettye" Crawford Tate papers
Owner and operator of the Tate Arms, a boarding house for African American male students at the University of Iowa during the 1940s and 1950s.
Esther J. Walls papers
Mason City, Iowa native and librarian who was the first African-American female student at University of Iowa elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Maude Esther White papers
Founder of the Des Moines Tutoring Center, and Iowa's first Affirmative Action administrator from 1973 to 1978.
Bessie Wilkerson papers
Former seamstress and long-time resident of Fort Madison, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.