Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 4 of 4

Giving Voice to their Memories: Oral Histories of African American Women in Iowa

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0331
Abstract

Oral history project of the Iowa Women's Archives.

Dates: 1997-1998

Gwendolyn Fowler papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0365
Abstract

The first African American woman pharmacist licensed in Iowa and presidential appointee to the United States Foreign Service in the 1950s.

Dates: 1905-1996

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

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

Filtered By

  • Repository: Iowa Women's Archives X
  • Subject: African American women -- Iowa X
  • Subject: Diaries X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
20th century 3
Oral histories 3
Autobiographies 2
Cultural artifacts 2
Des Moines (Iowa) 2
∨ more  
Names
Wood, Mary Elizabeth, 1902- 2
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women's (Dubuque, Iowa) 1
Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
Berry, Dora Martin, 1937- 1