wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Edna Griffin papers
Civil rights activist, later known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa.
Janet Shipton papers
Political activist and Johnson County, Iowa, supervisor who was the daughter of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
Katherine Mull Falvey Zastrow papers
State representative from 1958 to 1964 and the first woman elected to Charles City Council, 1970.
Magdalen Meade papers
Iowa farm woman and political organizer who was active in Roxanne Conlin's gubernatorial campaign in 1982.
Mary Louise Smith papers
First woman to chair the Republican National Committee, serving from 1974 to 1977. Co-founder of the Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives.
Minnette Doderer papers
Paula Watts Brown papers
Ruth Fuller papers
The first female pilot in Appanoose County and active in the local Democratic Party.
Ruth Laughlin papers
Ruth Salzmann Becker papers
Nurse and community activist in Iowa City who, as a young Jewish woman, fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the United States.