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Esther J. Walls papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0288
Abstract
Mason City, Iowa native and librarian who was the first African-American female student at University of Iowa elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Dates:
1860-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Frances Hawthorne papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0473
Abstract
Des Moines educator whose materials include You Can't Go Back to Buxton and African Americans in Iowa: a Chronicle of Contributions, 1830-1992.
Dates:
1906-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Jane Burleson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0340
Abstract
Teacher's aide, packinghouse worker, and union activist, Burleson was the first woman and first African American elected to the Fort Dodge City Council.
Dates:
1931-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
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