Iowa Civil Rights Commission
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0905
Abstract
Japanese American activist who, after being interned at the Tule Lake Japanese American internment camp with her family, travelled extensively and was heavily involved in human rights and civil rights activism in Iowa City and beyond. The collection includes materials from her personal life, employment, and activism, as well as photographs, audiovisual materials, and artifacts.
Dates:
1924 - 2016; Other: Date acquired: 2012-12-06
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
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
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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