wa00013/wa00013.6. Public Servants and Activists
Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:
Sue M. Reed papers
Republican Party activist and officer of Iowa and National Federations of Republican Women, 1950s-1970s.
Jane Christoffer Rubel papers
High school bascketball player who sued the Iowa Girl's High School Athletic Union to be allowed to play on the school team after becoming pregnant.
Janet Shipton papers
Political activist and Johnson County, Iowa, supervisor who was the daughter of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
Maude Esther White papers
Founder of the Des Moines Tutoring Center, and Iowa's first Affirmative Action administrator from 1973 to 1978.
Thelma Carmichael papers
An illustrated booklet promoting a playpen designed by Carmichael’s father.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Marguerite Cothorn papers
Social worker and political activist, who served on the Iowa Civil Rights Commission from 1983 to 1984.
Vergene Donovan papers
Spencer, Iowa, resident active in the Iowa Federation of Republican women.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Betty Jean Furgerson papers
Teacher, social worker, human rights commission director, and university regent from Waterloo.
Emma Harvat papers
First woman mayor of Iowa City, serving from 1922 to 1925.
Alberta Metcalf Kelly papers
High school English teacher who was active in state and national Democratic Party politics during the 1950s and 1960s.
Faith Knowler papers
Johnson County community activist from the 1970s to 1990s.
Margaret McCollum papers
Des Moines resident who was a leader in women's organizations including American Mother's Inc., PTA and AAUW.
Alice and Meta Schwiebert papers
Twin sisters from Victor, Iowa who had social work careers in rural communities and settlement houses
Shirley Goldstein papers
An activist on behalf of Soviet Jewish dissidents (known as refuseniks) to help them leave the USSR for Israel and the U.S.
Jill Meadows papers
Iowa City obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive rights activist.
Margaret Anderson Papers
Subject files, correspondence and clippings relating to women's rights.
Sally Novetzke papers
Republican Party activist and United States Ambassador to Malta from 1989 to 1993.
Deborah Nye papers
Clippings, publications, and photographs from the career of Deborah Nye, who co-founded the Emma Goldman Clinic for Women in Iowa City, Iowa in 1973.