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Verda Williams papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0137
Abstract

Communication specialist at Iowa State University who produced the documentary Black Des Moines: Voices Seldom Heard.

Dates: 1965-2004

Virginia Harper papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0199
Abstract

One of five African American women who integrated Currier Hall at the University of Iowa in 1946. Former president of the Fort Madison chapter of the NAACP.

Dates: 1940-2005

Women Against Racism Committee (Iowa City, Iowa) records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0364
Abstract

Multiethnic group founded in 1981 by women from the University of Iowa.

Dates: 1981-1998

YWCA of Greater Des Moines records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0167
Abstract

The records are arranged in eight series: Administrative records, Financial records, Publicity, Branches and clubs, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Artifacts, and 1998 Accession.

Dates: 1885-1995

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African American women 39
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20th century 28
1991-2000 16
Des Moines (Iowa) 16
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1981-1990 13
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Iowa City (Iowa) 12
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Sound recordings 11
Iowa 10
2001-2010 9
Cultural artifacts 8
Speeches 8
Women in public life 8
African Americans 7
Correspondence 7
Women 7
Women -- Political activity 7
College students 6
Scrapbooks 6
Social workers 6
Teachers 6
Teaching 6
Women -- Societies and clubs 6
Women lawyers 6
Administrative records 5
Civic leaders 5
Community activists 5
Families 5
Race discrimination 5
Race relations 5
Women in education 5
1971-1980 4
Civil rights workers 4
Diaries 4
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Nurses 4
Nursing -- Study and teaching (Associate degree) 4
Nursing -- Study and teaching (Graduate) 4
Racism 4
Singers 4
Social service 4
Volunteer workers in social service 4
Waterloo (Iowa) 4
Women in community organization 4
1961-1970 3
Authors 3
Awards 3
Civil rights 3
College teachers 3
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Minority women 3
Pharmacists 3
Posters 3
Sports for girls 3
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Volunteers 3
Women in pharmacy 3
Yearbooks 3
1941-1950 2
1951-1960 2
African American students 2
Ames (Iowa) 2
Artists 2
Autobiographies 2
Black Hawk County (Iowa) 2
Cedar Rapids (Iowa) 2
Civil rights movements 2
Clubs 2
Dancers 2
Davenport (Iowa) 2
Elementary school teachers 2
Fort Madison (Iowa) 2
Government employees 2
High school students 2
Holly Springs (Miss.) 2
Homemakers 2
Keokuk (Iowa) 2
Librarians 2
Mason City (Iowa) 2
Memoirs 2
Muscatine (Iowa) 2
Nurse administrators 2
Nursing 2
Slides (photographs) 2
Social participation 2
Vocational education 2
Women in charitable work 2
Women in community development 2
Women in higher education 2
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1931-1940 1
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Names
University of Iowa 8
State University of Iowa 4
Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 3
Drake University 2
Felton, Geraldene, 1926- 2
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Furgerson, Betty Jean, 1927- 2
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
Veterans Administration Hospital (Iowa City, Iowa) 2
Wing, Adrien Katherine 2
Wood, Mary Elizabeth, 1902- 2
YWCA of Greater Des Moines 2
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. 2
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
American Basketball League 1
American Nurses Association 1
Anderson, Ruth Bluford, 1921-2013 1
Antioch Baptist Church (Waterloo, Iowa) 1
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women's (Dubuque, Iowa) 1
Atkinson, Edith Reed, 1919-2000 1
Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh (Pa.) 1
Berry, Dora Martin, 1937- 1
Berry, Jean, 1938- 1
Bolden, Louise, 1922- 1
Brewton, Frances 1
Bridgeport Central High School (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1
Brown, Geraldine 1
Burleson, Jane, 1928- 1
Calderon, Barbara McDonald, 1915- 1
Carson, Frances 1
Club Les Dames (Waterloo, Iowa) 1
Coffin, Winnie 1
Community Pharmacy (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
Cooper, Cecile, 1900-1997 1
Cooper, Fannie Wilson 1
Cothorn, Marguerite, 1909-1998 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 Area Community College 1
Des Moines City Federation of Colored Women 1
Des Moines Suffrage Club 1
Des Moines Tutoring Center 1
Domond, Nadine, 1975- 1
Drake College of Pharmacy 1
Dungy, Madgetta, 1942- 1
Eichacker, Lois H. (1932-2018) 1
Estes, Simon 1
Fowler, Gwendolyn Wilson, 1907-1997 1
Franklin Book Programs, inc. 1
Furgerson, Penny, 1936- 1
Gateway Dance Theatre 1
Greene, Archie L., 1945- 1
Greene, Archie Lou Shipp 1
Griffin, Edna, 1909-2000 1
Griffin, Phyllis 1
Hammond, Johnie (1932-) 1
Haralovich, Mary Beth 1
Harper family 1
Harper, Virginia, 1929-1997 1
Harris, Gwendolene Barry 1
Hawkins, E. Marie, 1931- 1
Hawthorne, Frances E. 1
Hickok, Kathy 1
Indo-American Association of Des Moines 1
Iowa Civil Rights Commission 1
Iowa Commission for Senior Citizens 1
Iowa Commission on the Status of African-Americans 1
Iowa League for Nursing 1
Iowa Nurses' Association 1
Iowa State University. Cooperative Extension Service 1
Iowa. Department of Agriculture 1
Iowa. Department of Social Services 1
James, Barbara 1
Johnson, Helen Warren, 1908- 1
Jones, Leah A., 1965- 1
Juilliard School 1
Kansas City Art Institute 1
Katz Drug Store (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
Lawrence, Noah 1
Lloyd, Billie D., 1940-1991 1
Lloyd-Jones, Jean (1929-) 1
Mackay, Dora E., 1915- 1
Marsh, Marjorie, 1913- 1
Mary Church Terrell Club (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
Mason, Kären 1
Maxwell, Artice 1
McIntyre, Elizabeth Cicel Crawford 1
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) 1
Mitchell, Azalia, 1898-1986 1
Mitchell, James Wardlow 1
Morris, Arlene Roberts (1926-2016) 1
Mount Ararat Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1
Muhanji, Cherry (1939-) 1
Muscatine Federated Women's Club 1
Nash, Martha, 1925-2000 1
National Council of Catholic Women (U.S.) 1
Networking Together, Inc. 1
Noble, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1945- 1
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