Civil rights workers
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Cecile Cooper papers
Christine Grant papers
Sports administrator, professor, and gender equity activist.
Edna Griffin papers
Civil rights activist, later known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa.
Ernest Rodriguez papers
Davenport civil rights and Chicano activist, born in the predominantly Mexican settlement of Holy City in Bettendorf, Iowa.
Harry Harper Papers
Physician and civil rights leader in Fort Madison, IA. Correspondence, speeches, biographical and autobiographical materials, and subject files document both his career and his Civil Rights activism.
Jean and John L. Schneiders papers
Davenport community and civil rights activists during the 1960s.
Joyce Beisswenger papers
Social worker and civil rights activist from Osage, Iowa.
Lemme Family papers
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.
Margaret Anderson Papers
Subject files, correspondence and clippings relating to women's rights.
Margaret Atherton Bonney papers
Bonney's research files include Iowa suffragist Mary Jane Coggeshall, scientist Mary Louise Putnam, physician Jennie McCowen, and pioneer evangelist and minister, Abner Kneeland
Martha Nash papers
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.
Maude Esther White papers
Founder of the Des Moines Tutoring Center, and Iowa's first Affirmative Action administrator from 1973 to 1978.
Polly Ely papers
Peace and civil rights activist who was a longtime member of Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist in Cedar Rapids.
Stephen Lynn Smith Papers
State University of Iowa alumnus and activist.