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Aldeen Davis papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0279
Abstract
Muscatine, Iowa, newspaper columnist active in arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations.
Dates:
1954-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Archie L. Greene papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0296
Abstract
Writer and volunteer who earned a doctorate in English from the University of Iowa while living with spinocerebellar degeneration.
Dates:
1963-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Billie D. Lloyd papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0705
Abstract
Social worker, community activist, and civic administrator who founded the Quad Cities Conference on Black Families, Inc.
Dates:
1957-1995; 1976-1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Catherine Gayle Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0242
Abstract
Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.
Dates:
1910-1991; 1942-1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dora E. Mackay papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0248
Abstract
African American singer and beauty shop owner in Des Moines, Iowa.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF; one audiocassette [AC1109] shelved in audiocassette collection.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF; one audiocassette [AC1109] shelved in audiocassette collection.
Dates:
1932-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Edna Griffin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0443
Abstract
Civil rights activist, later known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa.
Dates:
1948-2004
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; 1950-2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Geneva Southall papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0380
Abstract
Professor Emeritus of Afro-American Studies and Music at the University of Minnesota; University of Iowa alumna.
Dates:
1960-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Iowa Nurses' Association records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0023
Abstract
State branch of the national organization. The overall purpose of the association has been to promote and improve the professional skills and status of nurses. Arrangement Administrative Records, 1904-1989 (boxes 1-18)
American Nurses Association, 1928-1989 (boxes 18-24)
Committees, 1933-1989 (boxes24-34)
Continuing Education, 1955-1989 (boxes 34-36)
Conventions, 1904-1989 (boxes 37-44)
Districts, 1920-1984 (boxes44-48)
Economic...
Dates:
1904-1989
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lileah Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0256
Abstract
Professional volunteer active in several arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations in Cedar Rapids.
Dates:
1961-2014
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
Verda Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0137
Abstract
Communication specialist at Iowa State University who produced the documentary Black Des Moines: Voices Seldom Heard.
Dates:
1965-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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