wa00003. African American Women
Record Group
Identifier: wa00003
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Olabelle Reed papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0343
Abstract
Arrangement
Teacher, community activist, and co-founder of Club Les Dames, an African American women's club in Waterloo.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1935-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Verda Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0137
Abstract
Communication specialist at Iowa State University who produced the documentary Black Des Moines: Voices Seldom Heard.
Dates:
1965-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Virginia Harper papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0199
Abstract
One of five African American women who integrated Currier Hall at the University of Iowa in 1946. Former president of the Fort Madison chapter of the NAACP.
Dates:
1940-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
YWCA of Greater Des Moines records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0167
Abstract
The records are arranged in eight series: Administrative records, Financial records, Publicity, Branches and clubs, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Artifacts, and 1998 Accession.
Dates:
1885-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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- African American women 23
- Personal papers 23
- Des Moines (Iowa) 12
- Oral histories 10
- Sound recordings 9
- 2001-2010 6
- Correspondence 6
- Speeches 6
- Video recordings 6
- African Americans 5
- Civic leaders 5
- Cultural artifacts 5
- Families 5
- Iowa City (Iowa) 5
- Scrapbooks 5
- Women in public life 5
- College students 4
- Community activists 4
- Educators 4
- Social workers 4
- Teachers 4
- Teaching 4
- Waterloo (Iowa) 4
- Women -- Political activity 4
- Civil rights workers 3
- Diaries 3
- Leadership 3
- Race discrimination 3
- Race relations 3
- Social service 3
- Volunteer workers in social service 3
- Women in community organization 3
- Women lawyers 3
- 1981-1990 2
- 1991-2000 2
- African American students 2
- Ames (Iowa) 2
- Cedar Rapids (Iowa) 2
- Civil rights 2
- Clubs 2
- Fort Madison (Iowa) 2
- Government employees 2
- Iowa 2
- Mason City (Iowa) 2
- Muscatine (Iowa) 2
- Pharmacists 2
- Racism 2
- Singers 2
- Vocational education 2
- Volunteers 2
- Women -- Societies and clubs 2
- Women in charitable work 2
- Women in education 2
- Women in higher education 2
- Women in pharmacy 2
- Women in radio broadcasting 2
- 1931-1940 1
- 1941-1950 1
- 1951-1960 1
- Actors 1
- Actresses 1
- Administrative records 1
- Adoption 1
- African American business enterprises 1
- African American churches 1
- African American cooking 1
- Artists 1
- Australia 1
- Authors 1
- Autobiographies 1
- Awards 1
- Beauty operators 1
- Beauty shops 1
- Black Des Moines: voices seldom heard 1
- Boardinghouses 1
- Buffalo (N.Y.) 1
- Burlington (Iowa) 1
- Businesswomen 1
- Buxton (Iowa) 1
- Camps 1
- Charity sports events 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Child care 1
- Child labor 1
- Children 1
- China 1
- Christian women 1
- City council members 1
- Civic improvement 1
- Civil rights movements 1
- Clarinda (Iowa) 1
- Class reunions 1
- College administrators 1
- College integration 1
- College teachers 1
- Community arts projects 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- Furgerson, Betty Jean, 1927- 2
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
- State University of Iowa 2
- YWCA of Greater Des Moines 2
- Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. 2
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
- Antioch Baptist Church (Waterloo, Iowa) 1
- Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women's (Dubuque, Iowa) 1
- Atkinson, Edith Reed, 1919-2000 1
- Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
- Brewton, Frances 1
- Brown, Geraldine 1
- Burleson, Jane, 1928- 1
- Carson, Frances 1
- Club Les Dames (Waterloo, Iowa) 1
- Coffin, Winnie 1
- Community Pharmacy (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
- Cooper, Fannie Wilson 1
- Davis, Aldeen 1
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 1
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Phi Chapter (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
- Des Moines City Federation of Colored Women 1
- Des Moines Suffrage Club 1
- Des Moines Tutoring Center 1
- Drake College of Pharmacy 1
- Eichacker, Lois H. (1932-2018) 1
- Felton, Geraldene, 1926- 1
- Fowler, Gwendolyn Wilson, 1907-1997 1
- Franklin Book Programs, inc. 1
- Greene, Archie L., 1945- 1
- Greene, Archie Lou Shipp 1
- Griffin, Edna, 1909-2000 1
- Griffin, Phyllis 1
- Haralovich, Mary Beth 1
- Harper family 1
- Harper, Virginia, 1929-1997 1
- Harris, Gwendolene Barry 1
- Hawthorne, Frances E. 1
- Hickok, Kathy 1
- Iowa Civil Rights Commission 1
- Iowa Commission on the Status of African-Americans 1
- Iowa State University. Cooperative Extension Service 1
- Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 1
- Iowa. Department of Agriculture 1
- Iowa. Department of Social Services 1
- Katz Drug Store (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
- Lawrence, Noah 1
- Lloyd, Billie D., 1940-1991 1
- Mackay, Dora E., 1915- 1
- Marsh, Marjorie, 1913- 1
- Mary Church Terrell Club (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
- Mason, Kären 1
- Maxwell, Artice 1
- McIntyre, Elizabeth Cicel Crawford 1
- Mitchell, Azalia, 1898-1986 1
- Mitchell, James Wardlow 1
- Morris, Arlene Roberts (1926-2016) 1
- Mount Ararat Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1
- Muscatine Federated Women's Club 1
- Nash, Martha, 1925-2000 1
- National Council of Catholic Women (U.S.) 1
- Pennsylvania State University 1
- Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948) 1
- Quad Cities Conference on Black Families 1
- Reed, Cecil A. 1
- Reed, Olabelle, 1935- 1
- Ross, Marie 1
- Scales, Lillian Moore, 1901-1991 1
- Schuyler, Philippa, 1932-1967 1
- Semper Fidelis Federated Women's Club 1
- Shipp, Nellie Elmira Martin 1
- Skinner, Eugene Willis 1
- Smith, David A. 1
- Southeast Iowa Community Action Organization 1
- Spencer, Bessie 1
- State University of Iowa. School of Social Work 1
- Tate Arms (Boarding house : Iowa City, Iowa) 1
- Tate, Candace 1
- Tate, Dennis Martin 1
- Tate, Elizabeth Crawford, 1906-1999 1
- Tate, Junious 1
- Tate, Shaka 1
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1
- United States. Foreign Service 1
- University of Iowa 1
- University of Iowa Alumni Association 1
- University of Iowa. College of Pharmacy 1
- University of Iowa. Hospitals and Clinics 1
- WOI-TV (Television station : Ames, Iowa) 1
- Walls, Esther J., 1926- 1
- White, Maude Esther, 1913-2003 1
- Williams, Catherine Gayle, 1914- 1
- Williams, Richard, -1995 1
- Williams, Verda L. (1944-2021) 1
- Williams, Virginia Mackay 1
- Wilson, Paul 1
- Wood, Mary Elizabeth, 1902- 1
- Young Women's Christian Association of Buffalo (N.Y.) 1
- Young Women's Christian Association of Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Young Women's Christian Association of Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1 + ∧ less
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