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Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0905
Abstract
Japanese American activist who, after being interned in a War Relocation Center during World War II, travelled extensively and was heavily involved in human and civil rights campaigns in Iowa City and beyond.
Dates:
1944-2012; Other: Date acquired: 2012-12-06
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Cecile Cooper papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0006
Christine Grant papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0329
Abstract
Sports administrator, professor, and gender equity activist.
Dates:
1952-2009
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
Ernest Rodriguez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0784
Abstract
Davenport civil rights and Chicano activist, born in the predominantly Mexican settlement of Holy City in Bettendorf, Iowa.
Dates:
1910-2014
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Jean and John L. Schneiders papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0783
Abstract
Davenport community and civil rights activists during the 1960s.
Dates:
1962-1971
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Jean Shoots papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0308
Abstract
Writer, performer, volunteer, and nurse in Iowa City.
Dates:
1990-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Joyce Beisswenger papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0823
Abstract
Social worker and civil rights activist from Osage, Iowa.
Dates:
1906-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lemme Family papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0260
Abstract
Traces the family history of Helen Lemme, a civil rights activist who was named Iowa City's first Woman of the Year in 1955.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1970-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lucy and Henry Vargas papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0886
Abstract
Mexican American activists from Davenport, Iowa.
Dates:
1930-2013
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
March for Women's Lives, Iowa Delegation, records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0578
Abstract
On April 25, 2004, pro-choice activists went to Washington, D.C., to participate in the March for Women's Lives, a protest against the pro-life policies of President George W. Bush's administration.
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Margaret Anderson Papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0001
Abstract
Subject files, correspondence and clippings relating to women's rights.
Dates:
1973-1978
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Margaret Atherton Bonney papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0313
Abstract
Bonney's research files include Iowa suffragist Mary Jane Coggeshall, scientist Mary Louise Putnam, physician Jennie McCowen, and pioneer evangelist and minister, Abner Kneeland
Dates:
1810-1992
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Maria Rundquist papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0544
Abstract
Sioux City business owner and political activist who emigrated to the United States from Mexico in 1978.
Dates:
1959-2016
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Mary Louise Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0027
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1925-1997
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
May Tangen papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0895
Abstract
University of Iowa librarian who moved to Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement.
Arrangement Three folders, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement Three folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1961-1982
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Muscatine Migrant Committee records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0745
Abstract
Migrant agency that advocated for agricultural laborers employed temporarily on eastern Iowa farms.
Dates:
1962-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
National Organization for Women, Dubuque Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0223
Abstract
The group was formed in 1973. The purpose of the group was to improve and expand the role of women in society and it supported the Equal Rights Amendment, safe and legal abortion among other issues.
Dates:
1973-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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