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Iowa ERA Coalition records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0011
Abstract
Organization to promote passage of an Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa and United States constitutions.
Dates:
1916-1981
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Iowa Women Against the Equal Rights Amendment records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0018
Abstract
Grassroots organization opposed to Iowa's ratification of the ERA to the Iowa and United States constitutions.
Dates:
1972-1980
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
League of Women Voters of Sioux City records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0229
Scope and Contents
The League of Women Voters of Sioux City records date from 1978 to 1993 and measure 2.5 linear inches. The bulk of the collection consists of newspaper clippings from the Sioux City Journal and the Des Moines Register chronicling local debates in the late 1970s about Sioux City's urban renewal and city government structure. Clippings on how other Iowa cities were handling these issues in their communities are included. The home rule charter folder includes the proposal submitted by the Sioux City Charter Commission to the mayor and city council, which called for re-structuring the city's government; among other things, the new charter would have given more power to the mayor. The proposed charter was hotly debated for several months and defeated in a narrow vote; the League opposed the charter. The urban renewal newspaper clippings describe conflicts over how to maintain a vital business sector, and an investigation into charges that a developer had misused...
Dates:
1978-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Mary Louise Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0027
Abstract
First woman to chair the Republican National Committee, serving from 1974 to 1977. Co-founder of the Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives.
Dates:
1925-1997
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
National Organization for Women, Ames Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0658
National Organization for Women, Dubuque Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0223
Abstract
The group was formed in 1973. The purpose of the group was to improve and expand the role of women in society and it supported the Equal Rights Amendment, safe and legal abortion among other issues.
Dates:
1973-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
National Organization for Women, Johnson County-Iowa City Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0017
Polk County Women's Political Caucus records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0748
Abstract
County branch of a national organization to support candidates who promote women's rights and women's participation in the political process.
Dates:
1974-1987
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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