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A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Collection
Identifier: IWA0089
Abstract
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Dates:
1988-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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
Catherine Gayle Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0242
Abstract
Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.
Dates:
1910-1991
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
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; 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
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
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
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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