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A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Alpha Evans papers
Rural middle school teacher who chaired the Iowa committee to revise teacher standards in the 1970s.
Democratic Activist Women's Network, District 1 records
Organization created to recruit, educate, and elect Democratic women to public office in Iowa.
Dorothy Carpenter papers
Republican who served in Iowa House of Representatives from 1980 to 1994.
Elaine Szymoniak papers
Iowa State senator, Des Moines City Council member, and hearing and speech consultant.
Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault records
IowaCASA's services included securing funding for Iowa's sexual assault centers, resource development, public education initiatives on child sexual abuse, anti-pornography work, and self-defense training. After 1997 IowaCasa expanded to include work on public policy.
Iowa Women's Hall of Fame records
Established by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women in 1975 to recognize the contributions of Iowa women.
Josephine Gruhn papers
Britt, Iowa-born member of the Iowa House of Representatives and vice-chair of the Committee on Agriculture during the farm crisis of the 1980s.
Kathleen Halloran Chapman papers
Attorney and Democrat who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1983 to 1992 and again in 1996.
Lena Belle Bock papers
Member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1960 to 1964.
Lois H. Eichacker papers
Fort Madison civic leader and former president of the University of Iowa Alumni Association Board.
Marguerite Cothorn papers
Social worker and political activist, who served on the Iowa Civil Rights Commission from 1983 to 1984.
Mary Louise Smith papers
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.
Myrtilla F. Levin papers
Active in the Republican Party, mayor of Newton, Iowa, and executive director of Iowa Business Council.
Patricia Herring papers
Feminist, social worker, and advocate for persons with HIV/AIDS.
Virginia Becker papers
Scrapbooks of Bremer County, Iowa, Farm Bureau woman.
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- Becker, Virginia, 1918- 1
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- Boyd, Nancy Shimanek, 1947- 1
- Brandt, Diane, 1938- 1
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- Carl, Janet, 1948- 1
- Carpenter, Dorothy, 1933-2011 1
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- Crabb, Helen M., 1916- 1
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- Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006 1
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- Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. Women's Committee 1
- Iowa's Women Legislators Oral Histories (Project) 1
- Iowa. Department of Public Health 1
- Iowa. General Assembly 1
- Iowa. General Assembly. Senate 1
- Johnson County (Iowa). Department of Public Health 1
- Kuehl, Curt 1
- Larsen, Sonja, 1941- 1
- Levin, Myrtilla F., 1938- 1
- Lipsky, Joan, 1919-2015 1
- Lloyd-Jones, Jean, 1929- 1
- Lonergan, Joyce, 1934- 1
- McElroy, Lillian M., 1917- 1
- Metcalf, Janet, 1935- 1
- Metz, Katheryn Clancy 1
- Miller, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ruby), 1905-1988 1
- Mohr, Charlotte 1
- Mullins, Sue B., 1936- 1
- National Conference of Christians and Jews 1
- National Federation of Republican Women 1
- National Order of Women Legislators (U.S.) 1
- Neuhauser, Mary C., 1934- 1
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 1
- Noun, Louise R. 1
- O'Dea, Suzanne, 1950- 1
- O'Halloran, Mary T., 1943- 1
- Orr, Joann, 1923-2017 1
- Pelzer, Ruth 1
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America 1
- President's Commission for the Observance of the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations 1
- Ray, Robert D., 1928- 1
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- Republican National Committee (U.S.) 1
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- Republican National Convention 1
- Republican National Convention (31st : 1976 : Kansas City, Mo.) 1
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
- Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 1
- Sargisson, Hallie, 1907- 1
- Shivvers, Vera, 1897-1990 1
- Smith, Elmer M. 1
- Smith, Joan H., 1926- 1
- Smith, Mary Louise 1
- Southeast Iowa Community Action Organization 1
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