Former seamstress and long-time resident of Fort Madison, Iowa.

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Social and philanthropic club organized in 1947 by African American women in Fort Madison, Iowa

Multi-volume memoir of a Mormon woman who was an educator, poet and advocate for the mentally ill.

Letters about experiences in Penn Yan, New York and Fort Madison, Iowa.

The club organized in 1957 with the objectives of social enjoyment, community service and intellectual improvement.

This collection is comprised of the papers of Iowa Representative Fred Schwengel.

Physician and civil rights leader in Fort Madison, IA. Correspondence, speeches, biographical and autobiographical materials, and subject files document both his career and his Civil Rights activism.

Mexican American whose family migrated to the U.S., and eventually to Iowa, in the early twentieth century.

Fort Madison civic leader and former president of the University of Iowa Alumni Association Board.

Fort Madison, Iowa, native, and active club member and volunteer.

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Native of Mexico who came to Fort Madison, Iowa in 1914. Her community activism centered on the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.

Cultural women's club in Fort Madison, Iowa which focused on intellectual improvement through study and reading.

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.