Civil rights workers
Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Cecile Cooper papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0006
Abstract
Civil rights worker in Davenport.
Dates:
1964-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Cecile Cooper papers
Christine Grant papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0329
Abstract
Sports administrator, professor, and gender equity activist.
Dates:
1952-2009; 1970-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Christine Grant papers
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
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Edna Griffin papers
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
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Ernest Rodriguez papers
Jean and John L. Schneiders papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0783
Abstract
Davenport community and civil rights activists during the 1960s.
Dates:
1962-1971
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
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Joyce Beisswenger papers
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
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Lemme Family papers
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
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Margaret Anderson papers
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
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Margaret Atherton Bonney papers
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
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Martha Nash papers
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
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Maude Esther White papers
Polly Ely papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0829
Abstract
Peace and civil rights activist who was a longtime member of Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist in Cedar Rapids.
Dates:
1937-2008; Other: Date acquired: 2010-07-01
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Polly Ely papers