Social advocacy
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Aaron Silander papers
Iowa Medical Society Auxiliary records
Organization of physicians' spouses that worked to advance health and health education and to support medical families
Irene and Jose Guzman papers
Photographs and slides pertaining to the Guzman's role in the Migrant Action Program in Mason City, Iowa.
Arrangement
Photographs and slides available in the Iowa Digital Library.
Joyce Nielsen papers
Feminist, legislator and community activist who worked in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Judy Herron Hoit papers
Disability access and awareness advocate and 1996 Ms. Wheelchair Iowa winner.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Linda Yanney papers
Iowa City feminist and champion of LGBT rights.
Lucy and Henry Vargas papers
Mexican American activists from Davenport, Iowa.
Muscatine Migrant Committee records
Migrant agency that advocated for agricultural laborers employed temporarily on eastern Iowa farms.
Rape Victim Advocacy Program (RVAP) records
Sexual abuse response and advocacy center established in in Iowa City in 1973 to serve located the University of Iowa community and surrounding counties.
Ruth Laughlin papers
Social Issues Zine Collection
In 2020, these BIPOC, LGBTQA+, Feminist, Health, and other social issues zines were purchased from Quimby’s in Chicago. They have been kept together as a collection for instruction and research.
Susan J. Norman papers
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Social Services Division records
This collection contains materials from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Social Services Division.
Women Aware, Inc. (Sioux City, Iowa) records
Women Aware, Inc. is a non-profit organization located in Sioux City, Iowa, which was started in 1979. Its primary focus is on displaced homemakers and single parent homemakers, providing advocacy, education, information, counseling, referral and support.