Nurse who served as a missionary and cared for patients with leprosy in Nigeria from 1948-1971.

Missionary to the Sudan who spent her childhood in Page County, Iowa, and worked in Africa from the 1940s to 1980s.

Served with her husband as missionaries for the Church of the Brethren in Garkida, Nigeria from 1948 to 1961.

Graduate of Ministry at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, where she was the first Unitarian Universalist student.

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.

Social worker and the first African American woman in the United States to be named executive director of a greater metropolitan YWCA.

Native of Hamburg, Iowa and missionary to the West Indies and the Belgian Congo from 1925 until 1959.

A medical missionary from West Liberty who worked in China in the early 1900s.

1917 graduate of Cornell College, Iowa, who served as a missionary in the Changchao District of Northern China.

Roman Catholic priest and labor rights advocate who taught at St. Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa.

Records of Sioux City’s Shaare Zion Synagogue, Mt. Sinai Temple, Congregation Beth Shalom, and the Jewish Federation of Sioux City.

Franciscan nun sentanced to six months in federal prison for trespassing at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Mexican American activist and nurse who advocated for the rights of migrant workers and Latino families in Iowa.

The papers consist primarily of her self-published writings, reflections, and poetry about her work at the Arizona State prison and on the Mexican border.

Chicana nun, nurse, and activist that worked closely with migrant workers and families.

Member of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and a missionary to China from 1928 to 1936.

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Religious order that helped to establish a school in St. John's Parish, Bancroft, Iowa in 1900.

Lutheran Seminary in Dubuque which began admitting women in 1970.

Interviews with members of the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Sioux City, Iowa.