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Cecile Cooper papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0006
Abstract

Civil rights worker in Davenport.

Dates: 1964-1998

Christine Grant papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0329
Abstract

Sports administrator, professor, and gender equity activist.

Dates: 1952-2022

Edna Griffin papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0443
Abstract

Civil rights activist, later known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa.

Dates: 1948-2004

Ernest Rodriguez papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0784
Abstract

Davenport civil rights and Chicano activist, born in the predominantly Mexican settlement of Holy City in Bettendorf, Iowa.

Dates: 1910-2014

Jean and John L. Schneiders papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0783
Abstract

Davenport community and civil rights activists during the 1960s.

Dates: 1962-2008

Joyce Beisswenger papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0823
Abstract

Social worker and civil rights activist from Osage, Iowa.

Dates: 1906-2005

Lemme Family papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0260
Abstract

Traces the family history of Helen Lemme, a civil rights activist who was named Iowa City's first Woman of the Year in 1955.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1970-1998

Margaret Anderson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0001
Abstract

Subject files, correspondence and clippings relating to women's rights.

Dates: 1973-1978

Margaret Atherton Bonney papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0313
Abstract

Bonney's research files include Iowa suffragist Mary Jane Coggeshall, scientist Mary Louise Putnam, physician Jennie McCowen, and pioneer evangelist and minister, Abner Kneeland

Dates: 1810-1992

Martha Nash papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0235
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1939-2000

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

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

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Beisswenger, Joyce, 1930-2002 1
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Bonney, Margaret Atherton 1
Catholic Interracial Council (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission 1
Coggeshall, Mary Jane Whitely, 1836-1911 1
Cooper, Cecile, 1900-1997 1
Davenport Academy of Sciences 1
Des Moines Tutoring Center 1
Ely, Polly, 1920-2008 1
Estes, Simon 1
Global Cedar Rapids (Organization) 1
Grant, Christine (1936-2021) 1
Griffin, Edna, 1909-2000 1
Griffin, Phyllis 1
Helen Lemme Elementary School (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Iowa Commission on the Status of African-Americans 1
Iowa State Teachers College 1
Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 1
Iowa Women's Political Caucus 1
Juilliard School 1
Katz Drug Store (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
Kneeland, Abner, 1774-1844 1
Lawrence, Noah 1
League of United Latin American Citizens. Council 10 (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Lemme family 1
Lemme, Helen 1
McCowen, Jennie, 1845-1924 1
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) 1
Mount Holyoke College 1
Nash, Martha, 1925-2000 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Council of Catholic Women (U.S.) 1
National Women's Political Caucus (U.S.) 1
Penuel Ridge Contemplative Retreat Center (Cheatham County, Tenn.) 1
Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948) 1
Putnam Museum 1
Putnam, Mary Louise Duncan, 1832-1903 1
Quad Cities Council on Human Rights 1
Rodriguez, Ernest, 1928- 1
Scarritt College for Christian Workers 1
Schneiders, Jean, 1935- 1
Schneiders, John L. (1933-2019) 1
Schwengel, Fred, 1907-1993 1
Sexton, Donna 1
Smalley family 1
Spanish Speaking Peoples Commission of Iowa 1
State University of Iowa 1
Unitarian Universalist Association 1
Unitarian Universalist Peoples Church of Cedar Rapids (Iowa) 1
United Nations Association of the United States of America. Iowa Division 1
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1
University of Tennessee, Knoxville 1
White, Maude Esther, 1913-2003 1
Yale University. Divinity School 1
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