1912
Adah (Hyde) Johnson and Letta (Cary) Bledsoe become the first African American women to graduate from The University of Iowa.
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Breaux, Richard M. "Maintaining a Home for Girls: The Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs at The University of Iowa, 1919-1950." The Journal of African American History 87 (2002):236-255.
Breaux, Richard Melvin. "Women of 942 Iowa Avenue and Other AA Women at The University of Iowa Before 1947." Unpublished list, 1999.
Silag, Bill, ed. Outside In: African-American History in Iowa, 1838-2000. Des Moines : State Historical Society of Iowa, 2001.
Giddings, Paula. In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement. New York: Morrow, 1988.