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A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Betty Jean Furgerson papers
Teacher, social worker, human rights commission director, and university regent from Waterloo.
Betty Mae Page papers
Waterloo, Iowa resident who served on Governor Ray's Commission on the Status of Women.
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One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Cecile Cooper papers
Edna Griffin papers
Civil rights activist, later known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa.
Jane Burleson papers
Teacher's aide, packinghouse worker, and union activist, Burleson was the first woman and first African American elected to the Fort Dodge City Council.
Marguerite Cothorn papers
Social worker and political activist, who served on the Iowa Civil Rights Commission from 1983 to 1984.
Maude Esther White papers
Founder of the Des Moines Tutoring Center, and Iowa's first Affirmative Action administrator from 1973 to 1978.
Ruth Bluford Anderson papers
Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa, author, and Black Hawk County Supervisor.
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- Adams, Janet, 1937- 1
- Anderson, Helen 1
- Anderson, Ruth Bluford, 1921-2013 1
- Baxter, Elaine, 1933- 1
- Beatty, Linda, 1942- 1
- Bloom, Amy 1
- Boyd, Nancy Shimanek, 1947- 1
- Brandt, Diane, 1938- 1
- Branstad, Terry E. 1
- Buhr, Florence, 1933- 1
- Burleson, Jane, 1928- 1
- Carl, Janet, 1948- 1
- Chapman, Kathleen Halloran, 1937- 1
- Clark, Betty Jean, 1920-2005 1
- Cohen, Gertrude, 1913- 1
- Conklin, Charlene, 1929- 1
- Cooper, Cecile, 1900-1997 1
- Corning, Joy, 1932- 1
- Cothorn, Marguerite, 1909-1998 1
- Crabb, Helen M., 1916- 1
- Des Moines Tutoring Center 1
- Doderer, Minnette, 1923-2005 1
- Drake University 1
- Duitscher, Lucille Dreier, 1922- 1
- Estes, Simon 1
- Furgerson, Betty Jean, 1927- 1
- Garman, Teresa, 1937- 1
- Gentleman, Julia, 1931- 1
- Governor Ray's Commission on the Status Of Women (Iowa) 1
- Gregerson, Mary Pat, 1938- 1
- Griffin, Edna, 1909-2000 1
- Griffin, Phyllis 1
- Gruhn, Josephine, 1927- 1
- Hammond, Johnie, 1932- 1
- Hannon, Beverly A., 1932- 1
- Harper, Mattie 1
- Harper, Patricia, 1932- 1
- Hoffmann-Bright, Betty, 1921- 1
- Iowa Civil Rights Commission 1
- Iowa Commission for Senior Citizens 1
- Iowa Commission on the Status of African-Americans 1
- Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 1
- Iowa's Women Legislators Oral Histories (Project) 1
- Iowa. General Assembly 1
- Juilliard School 1
- Katz Drug Store (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
- Larsen, Sonja, 1941- 1
- Lawrence, Noah 1
- Lipsky, Joan, 1919-2015 1
- Lloyd-Jones, Jean, 1929- 1
- Lonergan, Joyce, 1934- 1
- McElroy, Lillian M., 1917- 1
- Metcalf, Janet, 1935- 1
- Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Metz, Katheryn Clancy 1
- Miller, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ruby), 1905-1988 1
- Mullins, Sue B., 1936- 1
- Neal, Kathryn M. 1
- Neuhauser, Mary C., 1934- 1
- O'Dea, Suzanne, 1950- 1
- O'Halloran, Mary T., 1943- 1
- Orr, Joann, 1923-2017 1
- Page, Betty Mae, 1929- 1
- Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948) 1
- Quad Cities Council on Human Rights 1
- Ray, Robert D., 1928- 1
- Sargisson, Hallie, 1907- 1
- Schwengel, Fred, 1907-1993 1
- Shivvers, Vera, 1897-1990 1
- Smith, Joan H., 1926- 1
- Svoboda, Jane, 1944- 1
- Svoboda, Linda 1
- Synhorst, Melvin 1
- Teaford, Jane, 1935- 1
- Thompson, Patricia L., 1927- 1
- Torrence-Laughlin, Janis, 1926-2014 1
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1
- University of Iowa 1
- University of Northern Iowa 1
- Van Alstine, Percie, 1905- 1
- Veterans Administration Hospital (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
- Veterans Administration Hospital (Knoxville, Iowa) 1
- White, Maude Esther, 1913-2003 1
- Wick, Kathlyn M., 1903- 1
- Zastrow, Katherine Mull Falvey, 1904-1997 1 ∧ less