Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 21 - 27 of 27

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

Merle Ramirez papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0809
Abstract

Educator, activist, and musician from Davenport, Iowa, who held leadership positions in UAW Local 858 and League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).

Dates: 1987 - 2016

Paula Watts Brown papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0002
Abstract

Civic leader in Des Moines, Iowa.

Dates: 1930-1974

Penny Furgerson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0280
Abstract

Native of India who founded the Gateway Dance Theatre, a Des Moines-based company specializing in multiethnic dance.

Dates: 1957-2006

Roberta Pendleton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0341
Abstract

Sioux City, Iowa resident who was a WAVE during World War II.

Dates: 1943-1996

Velma Stuit scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0212
Abstract

Wife of Dean of University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and organizer of Newcomers Club in 1938 and International Wives Club in 1959.

Dates: 1934-1990

Violet Greiner papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0389
Abstract

Farmwoman, columnist, and volunteer from Blairsburg, Iowa who wrote a monthly column for the Rural Electric Cooperative News.

Dates: 1960-1999

Filtered By

  • Subject: Personal papers X
  • Subject: Community organization X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
20th century 21
Women in community organization 17
Photographs 16
Community organization 15
Community activists 11
∨ more
2001-2010 10
African American women -- Iowa 7
Speeches 7
1991-2000 6
African American women 6
Scrapbooks 6
Women -- Societies and clubs 6
Farmers 5
Iowa 5
Iowa City (Iowa) 5
Rural women 5
Volunteers 5
Women in agriculture 5
Women in public life 5
4-H clubs 4
Clubs 4
Correspondence 4
Cultural artifacts 4
Diaries 4
Homemakers 4
Social participation 4
Sound recordings 4
1981-1990 3
Civic leaders 3
Community leadership 3
Davenport (Iowa) 3
Des Moines (Iowa) 3
Farm life 3
Pacifism 3
Peace 3
Photograph albums 3
Video recordings 3
Volunteer workers in social service 3
Women -- Political activity 3
Women lawyers 3
1971-1980 2
2011-2020 2
Cedar Rapids (Iowa) 2
College students 2
Community life 2
Families 2
Fayette County (Iowa) 2
Fort Madison (Iowa) 2
Gardening 2
Home economics 2
Johnson County (Iowa) 2
Journalists 2
Memoirs 2
Oral histories 2
Political activists 2
Political participation 2
Race relations 2
Sioux City (Iowa) 2
Social service 2
Social workers 2
Voluntarism 2
Waterloo (Iowa) 2
Women 2
Women and War 2
Women's rights 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women 2
African American cooking 1
Antinuclear movement 1
Art, Modern 1
Artists 1
Autograph albums 1
Awards 1
Bisexuals 1
Blairsburg (Iowa) 1
Burlington (Iowa) 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Child care 1
Civic improvement 1
Civil rights 1
Civil rights workers 1
Collectors and collecting 1
College teachers 1
College teachers' spouses 1
Community education 1
Cooking 1
Cyprus 1
Dancers 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Dubuque (Iowa) 1
East Indian American women 1
Editors 1
Education 1
Educators 1
Electric cooperatives 1
Embroidery 1
Feminism 1
Files (digital files) 1
Friendship 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
State University of Iowa 4
American Association for the United Nations 1
American Association of University Women 1
American Association of University Women. Iowa City Branch 1
American Institute of Commerce 1
∨ more
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women's (Dubuque, Iowa) 1
Brown, Paula Watts, 1909-1974 1
Bywater, Jessie Cannon 1
Cech, Annette Cerveny, 1922- 1
Cech, Thomas 1
Dakota Dunes Country Club (Dakota Dunes, S.D.) 1
Daughters of the American Revolution 1
Davis, Aldeen 1
Davis, Laura Hutchison, 1916-1993 1
Davis, Lloyd L. 1
Day family 1
Day, Cornelia, 1919-2004 1
Day, Dennis 1
Day, Edward 1
Day, Robert 1
Day, Wilbur 1
Des Moines Art Center 1
Eichacker, Lois H. (1932-2018) 1
Farm Bureau (Scott County, Iowa) 1
Finnerty family 1
Finnerty, Diane, 1960- 1
Furgerson, Penny, 1936- 1
Gateway Dance Theatre 1
Gerber, John C. 1
Gerber, Margaret Wilbourn, 1913-1996 1
Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1
Goldman, Louise, 1924-1998 1
Graham, Frances, 1921- 1
Graham, John W., -1999 1
Graham, Ona 1
Greiner family 1
Greiner, Violet, 1916-1991 1
Grinnell College 1
Harris, Lileah, 1931-2014 1
Indo-American Association of Des Moines 1
Ingels, Caroline, 1914- 1
International Wives Club (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Iowa Association of Colored Women's Clubs 1
Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives 1
Iowa Church Leaders Peace Caravan 1
Iowa Local History Museum Association 1
Iowa State College 1
Iowa State College. Cooperative Extension Service 1
Johnson County Regional Planning Commission (Iowa) 1
Jones, Virginia Shrauger, 1921- 1
Judson College (Marion, Ala.) 1
Kappa Delta Alumni Association (Iowa State College) 1
Knowler, Faith (1911-2002) 1
Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademien 1
League of United Latin American Citizens. Council 10 (Davenport, Iowa) 1
League of Women Voters (U.S.) 1
League of Women Voters of Iowa 1
League of Women Voters of Iowa City, Iowa 1
Marsh, Marjorie, 1913- 1
McClintic, Amber, 1960- 1
Murphy, Marilyn, 1921-2012 1
Muscatine Federated Women's Club 1
Nash, Martha, 1925-2000 1
National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (U.S.) 1
National Council of Catholic Women (U.S.) 1
Needlework Guild of America. Iowa City Branch 1
Nineteenth Century Club (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
Pendleton, Roberta 1
Planned Parenthood Federation of America 1
Ramirez, Merle, 1930-2016 1
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1
Schmidt, Donna, 1921-2011 1
Schramm, Dorothy (1909-2006) 1
Semper Fidelis Club (Davenport, Iowa) 1
Semper Fidelis Federated Women's Club 1
Shrauger family 1
Shrauger, Cornelia Prentiss, 1896-1985 1
Shrauger, Harold, Sr. 1
Simmons, Eleanor, 1925-1999 1
Sioux City Boat Club (Sioux City, Iowa) 1
Siouxland Women's Political Caucus (Sioux City, Iowa) 1
Siouxlanders Concerned About the Nuclear Arms Race (Organization : Sioux City, Iowa)) 1
Smith family 1
Smith, Luella Rynerson, 1876-1948 1
Southeast Iowa Community Action Organization 1
Stuit, Velma, 1911-1997 1
Tri Mu 4-H Club (Scott County, Iowa) 1
UNICEF 1
United Nations Association of the United States of America 1
United States. Department of Agriculture 1
United States. Navy 1
University Club (Iowa City, Iowa) 1
University of Iowa 1
University of Iowa Alumni Association 1
Velázquez, Willie 1
Wallace, Lois Howes 1
Washington High School (Cedar Repids, Iowa) 1
Wommack, Barbara 1
Young Women's Christian Association (State University of Iowa) 1
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. 1
+ ∧ less