wa00003. African American Women
Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:
Esther J. Walls papers
Mason City, Iowa native and librarian who was the first African-American female student at University of Iowa elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Maude Esther White papers
Founder of the Des Moines Tutoring Center, and Iowa's first Affirmative Action administrator from 1973 to 1978.
Bessie Wilkerson papers
Former seamstress and long-time resident of Fort Madison, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Catherine Gayle Williams papers
Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.
Barbara Wommack papers
Clubwoman and member of the Semper Fidelis Club in Davenport, Iowa.
Mary Elizabeth Wood papers
Social worker and the first African American woman in the United States to be named executive director of a greater metropolitan YWCA.
Verda Williams papers
Communication specialist at Iowa State University who produced the documentary Black Des Moines: Voices Seldom Heard.
Barbara M. Calderon papers
Nursing administrator and first African-American public health nurse in Iowa.
Arrangement
Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Jean Berry papers
Lois H. Eichacker papers
Fort Madison civic leader and former president of the University of Iowa Alumni Association Board.
Geraldene Felton papers
Professor and former dean of the University of Iowa College of Nursing.
Arrangement
Two books that mention Felton and her achievements in nursing are filed in the printed work collection of the Iowa Women's Archives: Complete in All Its Parts: Nursing Education at the University of Iowa, 1898-1998 by Lee Anderson and Kathy Penningroth (1998) and The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, 1864-1994 by M. Elizabeth Carnegie (1995).
Gwendolyn Fowler papers
The first African American woman pharmacist licensed in Iowa and presidential appointee to the United States Foreign Service in the 1950s.
Betty Jean Furgerson papers
Teacher, social worker, human rights commission director, and university regent from Waterloo.
Aldeen Davis papers
Muscatine, Iowa, newspaper columnist active in arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations.
Mary Dickens papers
Community activist, volunteer, and poet in Waterloo.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Edna Griffin papers
Civil rights activist, later known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa.
Lileah Harris papers
Professional volunteer active in several arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations in Cedar Rapids.
Helen Lemme Reading Club records
African American reading club formed in 1984 by University of Iowa graduate students.
Lulu Merle Johnson papers
An African American woman from Gravity, Iowa, who earned an MA in 1930 and a PhD in 1941 in American history from the State University of Iowa.
Grace Morris Allen Jones papers
Burlington, Iowa born educator and wife of Dr. Laurence C. Jones, founder of Piney Woods Country Life School in Piney Woods, Mississippi.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.