wa00003. African American Women
Record Group
Identifier: wa00003
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Betty Jean Furgerson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0111
Abstract
Teacher, social worker, human rights commission director, and university regent from Waterloo.
Dates:
1921-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lois H. Eichacker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0255
Abstract
Fort Madison civic leader and former president of the University of Iowa Alumni Association Board.
Dates:
1905-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Martha Nash papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0235
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1939-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Maude Esther White papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0196
Abstract
Founder of the Des Moines Tutoring Center, and Iowa's first Affirmative Action administrator from 1973 to 1978.
Dates:
1957-1996
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