wa00003. African American Women
Record Group
Identifier: wa00003
Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:
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
/
Martha Nash papers
Mary Dickens papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0314
Abstract
Community activist, volunteer, and poet in Waterloo.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1991-1993 and undated
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Mary Dickens papers
Mary Elizabeth Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0262
Abstract
Social worker and the first African American woman in the United States to be named executive director of a greater metropolitan YWCA.
Dates:
1920-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Mary Elizabeth Wood papers
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
/
Maude Esther White papers
Olabelle Reed papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0343
Abstract
Teacher, community activist, and co-founder of Club Les Dames, an African American women's club in Waterloo.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1935-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Olabelle Reed papers
Ruth Bluford Anderson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0159
Abstract
Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa, author, and Black Hawk County Supervisor.
Dates:
1977-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Ruth Bluford Anderson papers
Sarilda Phillips papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0671
Abstract
Mississippi schoolteacher who was forced into retirement in 1956 following desegregation.
Dates:
1913-1986
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Sarilda Phillips papers
United Sisters of Black Hawk County records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0315
Abstract
Iowa affiliate of Networking Together, Inc., an organization for women of color.
Dates:
1984-1996
Venise T. Berry papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0344
Abstract
Novelist and associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa.
Dates:
1996-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Venise T. Berry papers
Verda Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0137
Abstract
Communication specialist at Iowa State University who produced the documentary Black Des Moines: Voices Seldom Heard.
Dates:
1969-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Verda Williams papers
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
/
Virginia Harper papers
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