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A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Aldeen Davis papers
Muscatine, Iowa, newspaper columnist active in arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations.
Catherine Gayle Williams papers
Professional dancer and deputy commissioner of the Iowa Department of Social Services.
Dora E. Mackay papers
African American singer and beauty shop owner in Des Moines, Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF; one audiocassette [AC1109] shelved in audiocassette collection.
Edna Griffin papers
Civil rights activist, later known as the Rosa Parks of Iowa.
Esther J. Walls papers
Mason City, Iowa native and librarian who was the first African-American female student at University of Iowa elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Frances Hawthorne papers
Des Moines educator whose materials include You Can't Go Back to Buxton and African Americans in Iowa: a Chronicle of Contributions, 1830-1992.
Geneva Southall papers
Professor Emeritus of Afro-American Studies and Music at the University of Minnesota; University of Iowa alumna.
Giving Voice to their Memories: Oral Histories of African American Women in Iowa
Oral history project of the Iowa Women's Archives.
Gwendolyn Fowler papers
The first African American woman pharmacist licensed in Iowa and presidential appointee to the United States Foreign Service in the 1950s.
Mary Elizabeth Wood papers
Social worker and the first African American woman in the United States to be named executive director of a greater metropolitan YWCA.
Maude Esther White papers
Founder of the Des Moines Tutoring Center, and Iowa's first Affirmative Action administrator from 1973 to 1978.
Verda Williams papers
Communication specialist at Iowa State University who produced the documentary Black Des Moines: Voices Seldom Heard.
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- Wood, Mary Elizabeth, 1902- 2
- Adams, Janet, 1937- 1
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
- Anderson, Helen 1
- Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
- Baxter, Elaine, 1933- 1
- Beatty, Linda, 1942- 1
- Berry, Dora Martin, 1937- 1
- Blind Tom, 1849-1908 1
- Bloom, Amy 1
- Bolden, Louise, 1922- 1
- Boyd, Nancy Shimanek, 1947- 1
- Brandt, Diane, 1938- 1
- Brewton, Frances 1
- Brown, Geraldine 1
- Buhr, Florence, 1933- 1
- Carl, Janet, 1948- 1
- Carson, Frances 1
- Chapman, Kathleen Halloran, 1937- 1
- Clark, Betty Jean, 1920-2005 1
- Coffin, Winnie 1
- Cohen, Gertrude, 1913- 1
- Conklin, Charlene, 1929- 1
- Cooper, Fannie Wilson 1
- Corning, Joy, 1932- 1
- Crabb, Helen M., 1916- 1
- Davis, Aldeen 1
- Davis, June, 1940- 1
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 1
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Phi Chapter (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
- Des Moines Suffrage Club 1
- Des Moines Tutoring Center 1
- Doderer, Minnette, 1923-2005 1
- Drake College of Pharmacy 1
- Duitscher, Lucille Dreier, 1922- 1
- Dungy, Madgetta, 1942- 1
- Felton, Geraldene, 1926- 1
- Fowler, Gwendolyn Wilson, 1907-1997 1
- Franklin Book Programs, inc. 1
- Furgerson, Betty Jean, 1927- 1
- Garman, Teresa, 1937- 1
- Gentleman, Julia, 1931- 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
- Haralovich, Mary Beth 1
- Harper, Mattie 1
- Harper, Patricia, 1932- 1
- Harris, Gwendolene Barry 1
- Hawthorne, Frances E. 1
- Hickok, Kathy 1
- Hoffmann-Bright, Betty, 1921- 1
- Iowa Civil Rights Commission 1
- Iowa Commission on the Status of African-Americans 1
- Iowa State University. Cooperative Extension Service 1
- Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 1
- Iowa's Women Legislators Oral Histories (Project) 1
- Iowa. Department of Agriculture 1
- Iowa. Department of Social Services 1
- Iowa. General Assembly 1
- James, Barbara 1
- Johnson, Helen Warren, 1908- 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
- Mackay, Dora E., 1915- 1
- Marsh, Marjorie, 1913- 1
- Mary Church Terrell Club (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
- Mason, Kären 1
- Maxwell, Artice 1
- McElroy, Lillian M., 1917- 1
- Metcalf, Janet, 1935- 1
- Metz, Katheryn Clancy 1
- Miller, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ruby), 1905-1988 1
- Mount Ararat Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1
- Mullins, Sue B., 1936- 1
- Muscatine Federated Women's Club 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
- Penny, Dianna, 1940- 1
- Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948) 1
- Sargisson, Hallie, 1907- 1
- Semper Fidelis Federated Women's Club 1
- Shivvers, Vera, 1897-1990 1
- Smith, David A. 1
- Smith, Joan H., 1926- 1
- Smith, Ruby, 1911- 1
- Spencer, Bessie 1 ∧ less