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Ivory Winston papers
Jane Burleson papers
Teacher's aide, packinghouse worker, and union activist, Burleson was the first woman and first African American elected to the Fort Dodge City Council.
Janice A. Beran papers
Professor in the College of Education at Iowa State University until her retirement in 1994. Materials relate to the history of sports and particularly the participation of women and African-Americans in Iowa sports.
Lileah Harris papers
Professional volunteer active in several arts, civic, educational, and religious organizations in Cedar Rapids.
Lillian Moore Scales papers
Estherville, Iowa-born homemaker and teacher who was active in literary, political, and religious groups in Des Moines.
Lois H. Eichacker papers
Fort Madison civic leader and former president of the University of Iowa Alumni Association Board.
Lulu Merle Johnson papers
An African American woman from Gravity, Iowa, who earned an MA in 1930 and a PhD in 1941 in American history from the State University of Iowa.
Martha Nash papers
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.
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.
Noble Photograph collection
Postcards and photographs of Iowa includes the work of professional women photographers in Iowa.
Olabelle Reed papers
Teacher, community activist, and co-founder of Club Les Dames, an African American women's club in Waterloo.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Penny Furgerson papers
Native of India who founded the Gateway Dance Theatre, a Des Moines-based company specializing in multiethnic dance.
Sarilda Phillips papers
Mississippi schoolteacher who was forced into retirement in 1956 following desegregation.
Verda Williams papers
Communication specialist at Iowa State University who produced the documentary Black Des Moines: Voices Seldom Heard.
Virginia Harper papers
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.
YWCA of Greater Des Moines records
The records are arranged in eight series: Administrative records, Financial records, Publicity, Branches and clubs, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Artifacts, and 1998 Accession.
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- Blind Tom, 1849-1908 1
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- Eichacker, Lois H. (1932-2018) 1
- Felton, Geraldene, 1926- 1
- Fowler, Gwendolyn Wilson, 1907-1997 1
- Franklin Book Programs, inc. 1
- Furgerson, Penny, 1936- 1
- Gateway Dance Theatre 1
- Governor Ray's Commission on the Status Of Women (Iowa) 1
- Greene, Archie L., 1945- 1
- Greene, Archie Lou Shipp 1
- Griffin, Edna, 1909-2000 1
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- Haralovich, Mary Beth 1
- Harper family 1
- Harper, Virginia, 1929-1997 1
- Harris, Gwendolene Barry 1
- Harris, Lileah, 1931-2014 1
- Hawthorne, Frances E. 1
- Hickok, Kathy 1
- Indo-American Association of Des Moines 1
- Iowa Civil Rights Commission 1
- Iowa Commission on the Status of African-Americans 1
- Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union 1
- Iowa League for Nursing 1
- Iowa Nurses' Association 1
- Iowa State University 1
- Iowa State University. Cooperative Extension Service 1
- Iowa Women's Hall of Fame 1
- Iowa. Department of Agriculture 1
- Iowa. Department of Social Services 1
- Johnson, Lulu Merle, 1907-1995 1
- Jones, Grace Morris Allen, 1876-1928 1
- Katz Drug Store (Des Moines, Iowa) 1
- Know Your Neighbor (Panel : Des Moines, Iowa) 1
- Lawrence, Noah 1
- Lloyd, Billie D., 1940-1991 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
- Mississippi State Board of Education 1
- Mitchell, Azalia, 1898-1986 1
- Mitchell, James Wardlow 1
- Morris, Arlene Roberts 1
- Morris, Arlene, 1926- 1
- Mount Ararat Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1
- Muscatine Federated Women's Club 1
- Nash, Martha, 1925-2000 1
- National Council of Catholic Women (U.S.) 1
- Noble, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1945- 1
- Page, Betty Mae, 1929- 1
- Pennsylvania State University 1
- Phillips, Sarilda, 1877-1971 1
- Piney Woods School 1
- Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948) 1
- Quad Cities Conference on Black Families 1
- Ray, Robert D., 1928- 1
- Reed, Cecil A. 1
- Reed, Olabelle, 1935- 1
- Ross, Marie 1
- Scales, Lillian Moore, 1901-1991 1
- Schuyler, Philippa, 1932-1967 1
- Semper Fidelis Federated Women's Club 1
- Shipp, Nellie Elmira Martin 1
- Skinner, Eugene Willis 1
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